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bleeding heart
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bleeding heart: see fumitory fumitory, common name for some members of the Fumariaceae, a family of herbs native to much of the Old World, especially temperate Eurasia. The family is closely related to (and sometimes classified with) the poppies.
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Bleeding heart (Dicentra spectabilis)
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Any of several species of Dicentra, a genus of herbaceous flowering plants of the fumitory family (Fumariaceae). The old garden favourite is the Japanese D. spectabilis, which has small rosy-red and white, heart-shaped flowers dangling from arching stems. The eastern, or wild, bleeding heart (D. eximia) produces sprays of small pink flowers from April to September in the Allegheny Mountains region of the U.S. The Pacific, or western, bleeding heart (D. formosa), ranging from California to British Columbia, has several varieties of garden interest.



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When I first read the essay, I expected Shilling to encounter high dudgeon, the opprobrium of the chattering classes or, at the very least, knee-jerk, bleeding-heart tirades in The New York Times.
Intimacy resonates through the atmospheric and layered arrangements, the bleeding-heart, image-laden lyrics, and the syncopated and ambitious rhythms.
There may not be many occasions when so-called bleeding-heart liberals and business leaders preoccupied with the bottom line would join a united chorus expressing concern and outrage at social policy, but the Board of Supervisors recently opened the door to this rarity.
 
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