Pronunciation: ˌ jä-n ē - ' j ə mp- ˌ ə p
Function: noun
Date: 1842
1 : a common cultivated European viola ( Viola tricolor ) which has short-spurred flowers usually blue or purple mixed with white and yellow and from which most of the garden pansies are derived broadly : any of various small-flowered cultivated pansies
2 : any of various American violets