1. Garden plant having deep-pink drooping heart-shaped flowers
   "The lyreflower, also known as bleeding heart, is a popular shade garden plant";
   - lyreflower, lyre-flower, Dicentra spectabilis
    
2. Someone who is excessively sympathetic toward those who claim to be exploited or underprivileged
   "His colleagues called him a bleeding heart for always defending the most difficult clients"

Derived forms: bleeding hearts

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant, sympathiser [Brit], sympathizer, well-wisher

Part of: Dicentra, genus Dicentra

Encyclopedia: Bleeding heart