Pimpernel definitions

Pimpernel

1) Burnet bloodwort 2) French word used in English 3) Herb 4) Herbaceous plant 5) Plant of the primrose family 6) Poterium sanguisorba 7) Salad burnet 8) Scarlet flower 9) Storied scarlet character
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Pimpernel

• (n.) A plant of the genus Anagallis, of which one species (A. arvensis) has small flowers, usually scarlet, but sometimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather.
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pimpernel

(genus Anagallis), any of several plants of the primrose family (Primulaceae), consisting of about 30 species of low herbs mostly native to western ...
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pimpernel

<botany> A plant of the genus Anagallis, of which one species (A. Arvensis) has small flowers, usually scarlet, but sometimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather. Water pimpernel. ... <botany> See Brookweed. ... Origin: F. Pimprenelle; cf. Sp. Pimpinela, It. Pimpinella; perh. From LL. Bipinnella, ...
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Pimpernel

Pim'per·nel noun [ French pimprenelle ; confer Spanish pimpinela , Italian pimpinella ; perhaps from Late Latin bipinnella , for bipinnula two-winged, equiv. to Latin bipennis ; bis twice + penna feather, wing. Confer Pen a feather.]
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Pimpernel

Pimpernel (Anagallis) is a genus of plants belonging to the family Primulaceae. The flowers have a calyx composed of five distinct sepals and a wheel-shaped corolla.
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Pimpernel

Pimpernel is a cultivated variety of potato.
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pimpernel

[n] - any of several plants of the genus Anagallis
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pimpernel

noun any of several plants of the genus Anagallis
Found on https://www.encyclo.co.uk/local/20974

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pimpernel

Any of a group of plants belonging to the primrose family, comprising about 30 species mostly native to Western Europe. The European scarlet pimpernel (A. arvensis) grows in cornfields, the small star-shaped flowers opening only in full sunshine. It is naturalized in North America. (Genus Anagallis, family ...
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