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bleeding heart noun1 informal, derogatory A person considered to be excessively soft-hearted or liberal: [as modifier]: bleeding-heart environmentalists...- It is the realm of everyday life in which we live that is dismissed by economists as the realm of the bleeding hearts.
- They have gotten rid of all of their poor and all of their ghettos and didn't have to spend any money or listen to any bleeding hearts.
- Some bleeding hearts say, oh, my, so many players took steroids, it isn't fair to single out Bonds.
2Any of a number of plants which have red, or partly red, heart-shaped flowers.- A popular herbaceous garden plant related to Dutchman’s breeches (genus Dicentra, family Fumariaceae, in particular D. cucullaria). A tropical twining shrub with cream and red flowers, widely cultivated under glass (Clerodendrum thomsoniae, family Verbenaceae)..
Plants, such as coral bells and fringed bleeding heart, will produce flowers all season, especially if they are regularly picked....- Seeds of most hardy perennials, including bleeding hearts, columbines, phlox, and primulas, require a period of chilling to germinate.
- The roses were in full bloom along with the lilies, bleeding hearts, tulips, and dandelions.
3 (also bleeding heart dove) A dove with an oval red patch on the breast, found on islands around the Philippines.- Genus Gallicolumba, family Columbidae: several species.
For $15 you can get a nice bleeding heart dove, but that might be a poor choice for a conservative amour....- Parrots, parakeets, bleeding heart doves, cuckoos, owls and large amounts of small birds can still be seen.
- When the bleeding heart dove flies into the cathedral's windows and falls out of favor with the skies, this is no accident; what it is is the manner in which symbols will make themselves known to us.
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