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Pimpernel

noun
1.
European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads.  Synonyms: burnet bloodwort, Poterium sanguisorba, salad burnet.
2.
Any of several plants of the genus Anagallis.



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"Pimpernel" Quotes from Famous Books



... How did they draw their sweet, refreshing tint from the brown earth, or the limpid air, or the white light? Chemistry was not at hand to answer me, and all her wisdom would not have dispelled the wonder. Later, the little scarlet pimpernel charmed me. It seemed more than a flower; it was like a human thing. I knew it by its homely name of 'poor man's weather glass.' It was so much wiser than I; for when the sky was yet without a cloud, softly ...
— Authors and Friends • Annie Fields



Words linked to "Pimpernel" :   Anagallis arvensis, poor man's weatherglass, scarlet pimpernel, genus Anagallis, herbaceous plant, false pimpernel, Anagallis, herb, genus Poterium, Anagallis tenella, yellow pimpernel, Poterium



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