pansy

Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
pansy/ˈpanzi/

▶noun

• 1 a viola with flowers in rich colours, especially of a cultivated variety. [Viola tricolor (wild pansy) and related species and hybrids.]

• 2 informal, derogatory an effeminate or homosexual man.

– derivatives
pansified adjective (informal, derogatory).

– origin ME: from Fr. pensée ‘thought, pansy’, from penser ‘think’.