Pansy (disambiguation)

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The pansy is a member of a large group of hybrid plants of the Viola genus, that are cultivated as garden flowers.

The name may also refer to:

Places

• Pansy, Arkansas, an unincorporated community
• Pansy, Kentucky, an unincorporated community
• Pansy, Ohio, an unincorporated community
• Pansy, Pennsylvania, an unincorporated community
• Pansy, West Virginia, an unincorporated community

People

• Isabella Macdonald Alden (1841 – 1930), an American author who used the pseudonym "Pansy"

Art, entertainment, and media

• Pansy Parkinson, a minor character in the Harry Potter fiction series

Flora and fauna

• Junonia, a genus of nymphalid butterflies commonly known as pansies
• Sea pansy, a marine organism formed of a collection of polyps

Ships

• HMS Pansy, a Royal Navy Arabis-class sloop completed in 1916
• USS Pansy (1861), a steamer acquired by the Union Navy from the Union Army during the American Civil War

Transportation

• Pansy, the name of the locomotive on the Richmond–Kurrajong railway line

Slang

• Pansy, a slang term for an effeminate, homosexual male, see List of LGBT slang
  • see also Pansy Craze, a gay cultural phenomenon in the United States in the 1930s