pimpernel
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).
Meaning
6 sensesAny of various plants of the genus Anagallis, having small red, white or purple flowers, especially the scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis).
Gauchheil
о́чный цветóčnyj cvet
any of several plants of the genus Anagallis
Sanguisorba spp.
Great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis)
Salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor).
(Canada, US)A yellow pimpernel (Taenidia integerrima)
(figuratively)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.
(archaic)A plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga).
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Origin
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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Forms
plural: pimpernels| Singular | pimpernel |
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Synonyms
3 synonyms- European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads:salad burnetburnet bloodwortPoterium sanguisorba