WATER PIMPERNEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does water pimpernel mean? 

• WATER PIMPERNEL (noun)
  The noun WATER PIMPERNEL has 1 sense:

1. a white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samolus

  Familiarity information: WATER PIMPERNEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WATER PIMPERNEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

A white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samolus

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

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

aquatic plant; hydrophyte; hydrophytic plant; water plant (a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth)

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

brookweed; Samolus valerandii (water pimpernel of Europe to China)

brookweed; Samolus floribundus; Samolus parviflorus (American water pimpernel)

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

genus Samolus; Samolus (genus of herbs usually growing in salt marshes: water pimpernels)