pansy

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Helen Litchfield, secretary of the botany section at La Société Guernesiaise, said the team's efforts in propagating the dwarf pansy meant it was no longer at risk.

From BBC • Apr. 3, 2026

“There was even this period ‘the pansy craze’ where it was fashionable to have limp-wristed men in movies who may have been gay or trans or entirely outside that in movies.”

From The Guardian • Feb. 27, 2019

You can also try perennials such as the marsh marigold, Lily of the valley, astilbe, clematis, primrose, pansy and lamb’s ear.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 15, 2014

Going without a DVR demonstrated exactly how much of a pansy I am: I responded to not having DVR much the same way that 19th-century Irish responded to not having potatoes.

From Washington Post • Sep. 13, 2011

He was one of those guys that think they're being a pansy if they don't break around forty of your fingers when they shake hands with you.

From "The Catcher in the Rye" by J. D. Salinger