pansy

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. Any of various plants of the genera Achimenes or Viola, especially V. tricolor or its hybrids, having flowers with velvety petals of various colors.
2. n. A deep to strong violet.
3. n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a man or boy who is considered effeminate.
4. n. Offensive Slang Used as a disparaging term for a homosexual man.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. A favorite species of violet, Viola tricolor; the heart's-ease. The wild plant is extremely variable, becoming in the variety arvensis, or field-pansy, an inconspicuous annual field-weed; in others it is more showy. The innumerable garden varieties, with large richly and variously Colored flowers, have been developed by long culture and by hybridizing with various perennial species. The pansy is an officinal herb, the root being cathartic and emetic.

Wiktionary

1. n. Common name for a cultivated flowering plant, Viola tricolor hortensis, derived from heartsease; many garden varieties are hybrids.
2. n. A deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.
3. n. derogatory, colloquial, dated A male homosexual, especially one who is effeminate.
4. n. derogatory, colloquial A timid, weak man or boy; a wuss.
5. adj. Wimpy; spineless; feeble.
6. adj. Of a deep purple colour, like that of the pansy.

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (Bot.) 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.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. offensive term for an openly homosexual man
2. n. large-flowered garden plant derived chiefly from the wild pansy of Europe and having velvety petals of various colors
3. n. a timid man or boy considered childish or unassertive