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pimpernel
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As a noun, pimpernel means a plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga).
Meanings of pimpernel
8 meaningsnoun
now rareA plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga).
Any of various plants of the genus Anagallis, having small red, white or purple flowers, especially the scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis).
Sanguisorba spp.
Great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis)
Salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor).
north americaA yellow pimpernel (Taenidia integerrima)
figurativeSomeone resembling the fictional Scarlet Pimpernel; a gallant dashing resourceful man given to remarkable feats of bravery and derring-do in liberating victims of tyranny and injustice.
European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for saladsplant
Similar: salad burnet, burnet bloodwort, Poterium sanguisorba
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