Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Pansy

Pansy , noun

[French Pensée thought, pansy, from penser to think, Latin pensare to weigh, ponder. See Pensive.]

(Botany) A plant of the genus Viola (Viola tricolor) and its blossom, originally purple and yellow. Cultivated varieties have very large flowers of a great diversity of colors. Called also heart's-ease, love-in-idleness, and many other quaint names.