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PINK OF MY JOHN

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• PINK OF MY JOHN (noun)
The noun PINK OF MY JOHN has 1 sense:

1. a common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived

Familiarity information: PINK OF MY JOHN used as a noun is very rare.

• PINK OF MY JOHN (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

A common and long cultivated European herb from which most common garden pansies are derived

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

heartsease; Johnny-jump-up; love-in-idleness; pink of my John; Viola tricolor; wild pansy

Hypernyms ("pink of my John" is a kind of...):

viola (any of the numerous plants of the genus Viola)

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