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pimpernel

pimpernel · pimpernels

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Any of various plants of the genus Anagallis, having small red, white or purple…Any of various plants of the genus Anagallis, having small red, white or purple flowers, especially the scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis).

/ˈpɪmpənɛl/

Значение

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Any of various plants of the genus Anagallis, having small red, white or purple flowers, especially the scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis).
Gauchheil
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any of several plants of the genus Anagallis
Sanguisorba spp.
Great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis)
Salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor).
(Канада, США)A yellow pimpernel (Taenidia integerrima)
(переносно)Someone 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.
Lined up solidly with the Pimpernels and with the persecuted.
(архаичное)A plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga).

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Происхождение

From Anglo-Norman pimpernele et al., Middle French pimpinelle (“burnet saxifrage”) et al.,

From Anglo-Norman pimpernele et al., Middle French pimpinelle (“burnet saxifrage”) et al., from Medieval Latin pimpinella, pipinella, most likely from piper (“pepper”) because its fruit resembled peppercorns, although variants may suggest other derivations, bipinnella the bipennis (“two-winged”).

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