pansy

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun Any of various plants of the genus Viola, especially V. tricolor or its hybrids, widely cultivated for their flowers with velvety petals of various colors.
• noun A deep to strong violet.
• noun Used as a disparaging term for a man or boy who is considered effeminate.
• noun Used as a disparaging term for a gay man.

from The Century Dictionary.

• noun A favorite species of violet, Viola tricolor; the heart's-ease.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

• noun (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.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

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

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

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