PIMPERNEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does pimpernel mean? 

• PIMPERNEL (noun)
  The noun PIMPERNEL has 2 senses:

1. European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads

2. any of several plants of the genus Anagallis

  Familiarity information: PIMPERNEL used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PIMPERNEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

burnet bloodwort; pimpernel; Poterium sanguisorba; salad burnet

Hypernyms ("pimpernel" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Meronyms (parts of "pimpernel"):

salad burnet (leaves sometimes used for salad)

Holonyms ("pimpernel" is a member of...):

genus Poterium; Poterium (a genus of thorny herbs or shrubs of the family Rosaceae)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Any of several plants of the genus Anagallis

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pimpernel" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "pimpernel"):

Anagallis arvensis; poor man's weatherglass; red pimpernel; scarlet pimpernel (herb with scarlet or white or purple blossoms that close at approach of rainy weather)

Anagallis tenella; bog pimpernel (small creeping European herb having delicate pink flowers)

Holonyms ("pimpernel" is a member of...):

Anagallis; genus Anagallis (chiefly Old World herbs)