JOHNNY-JUMP-UP


Meaning of JOHNNY-JUMP-UP in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˌjä-nē-ˈjəmp-ˌəp ]

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

Merriam-Webster's Collegiate English vocabulary.      Энциклопедический словарь английского языка Merriam Webster.