bleeding heart

bleeding heart
    n 1: garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers
         [syn: {bleeding heart}, {lyreflower}, {lyre-flower},
         {Dicentra spectabilis}]
    2: someone who is excessively sympathetic toward those who claim
       to be exploited or underprivileged
    

Dicentra \Di*cen"tra\ (d[-i]*s[e^]n"tr[.a]), Prop. n. [NL., fr.
   Gr. di- = di`s- twice + ke`ntron spur.] (Bot.)
   A genus of herbaceous plants, with racemes of two-spurred or
   heart-shaped flowers, including the {Dutchman's breeches},
   and the more showy {Bleeding heart} ({Dicentra spectabilis}).
   [Corruptly written {dielytra}.]
   [1913 Webster]
    

64 Moby Thesaurus words for "bleeding heart":
      aching heart, agony, agony of mind, anguish, bale, bathos,
      bitterness, bowels of compassion, broken heart, brokenheartedness,
      cloyingness, compassionateness, crushing, depression,
      depth of misery, desolation, despair, extremity, gentleness, goo,
      grief, heartache, heartbreak, heartbrokenness, hearts-and-flowers,
      heartsickness, heartsoreness, heavy heart, infelicity, lenity,
      maudlinness, mawkishness, melancholia, melancholy, mercifulness,
      misery, mush, mushiness, namby-pamby, namby-pambyism,
      namby-pambyness, nostalgia, nostomania, oversentimentalism,
      oversentimentality, prostration, romanticism, ruthfulness, sadness,
      sentiment, sentimentalism, sentimentality, slop, sloppiness, slush,
      soap opera, sob story, softheartedness, suicidal despair,
      sweetness and light, tearjerker, tenderness, woe, wretchedness