pimpernel : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: pimpernel	by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
pimpernel n European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads Synonym(s): salad burnet, burnet bloodwort, pimpernel, Poterium sanguisorba any of several plants of the genus Anagallis
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Pimpernel \Pim"per*nel\, n. [F. pimprenelle; cf. Sp. pimpinela, It. pimpinella; perh. from LL. bipinnella, for bipinnula two-winged, equiv. to L. bipennis; bis twice + penna feather, wing. Cf. {Pen} a feather.] (Bot.) 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}. (Bot.) See {Brookweed}.