Tansy
Flower name, from Greek
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Tansy Origin and Meaning
The name Tansy is a girl's name of Greek origin meaning "immortality".
Tansy is a flower name rarer than Rose, livelier than Lily and a lot less teasable than Pansy.
Tansy is a perennial herbaceous plant of the aster family that has clusters of small bright yellow blossoms. It was cultivated by the ancients for medicinal purposes, and has found a variety of other uses over the ages, associated with health and immortality.
There have been a couple of eponymous novels titled Tansy, and it was the name of a character on Hart of Dixie,
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Famous People Named Tansy
- Tansy DaviesEnglish composer and conductor
- Tansy Rayner RobertsAustralian novelist
- Tansy Aspinalldaughter of John Aspinall, referred to as "daughter of the jungle"
- Tansy AlexanderAmerican voice actor
Tansy in Pop Culture
- Tansy Firlecharacter in "Tansy" by Tickner Edwardes
- Tansy Truittcharacter on TV's "Hart of Dixie"
- Tansy Saylor/Taylora main character in "Conjure Wife" by Fritz Leiber and film "Night of the Eagle"
- Tansyhedgehog character (later the Abbess) in the Redwall series by Brian Jacques
- Tansycharacter mentioned by Hoster Tully on his deathbed in George R. R. Martin's "Game of Thrones" series ("A Storm of Swords")
- Tansy Malonemain character in "Tansy" by Maureen Peters