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Definitions

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. n. Any of various perennial herbs of the genus Dicentra, especially the Old World D. spectabilis, having arching clusters of pink to red or sometimes white, heart-shaped flowers.
  2. n. A person who is considered excessively sympathetic toward those who claim to be underprivileged or exploited.

Wiktionary

  1. n. Any of various perennial plants, of the genus Dicentra, having pink heart-shaped flowers

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers
  2. n. someone who is excessively sympathetic toward those who claim to be exploited or underprivileged

Examples

  • “Gabrielle Ashe was black, but her tawny coloring was more of a deep cinnamon or mahogany, the kind of comfortable in-between that Sexton knew bleeding heart "whites" could endorse without feeling like they were giving away the farm.”

    Deception Point

  • “Somehow this would make a great show ... two of the city’s leading citizens missing, one a wealthy do-anything-for-a-buck industrialist, the other a bleeding heart who helped the downtrodden ... yeah, oh, man, yeah.”

    Shiver

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  1. herbaceous plant
  1. Herb
  1. sympathiser
  1. sympathizer
  1. wellwisher

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  1. coral-creeper
  1. Dicentra
  1. seal-flower
  1. dicentra
  1. family fumariaceae
  1. fumariaceae
  1. fumitory family
  1. lyreflower

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  1. colloquialism

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  • reesetee I have those lovelies in my backyard. :-) Jun 10, 2009

  • bilby Flower. Jun 10, 2009

  • treeseed Someone with compassion or someone who is a "do-gooder."
    Often seen as "bleeding heart Liberal" in the United States. Feb 28, 2008

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