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pimpernels

pimpernels is the plural of pimpernel.

Meaning of pimpernel

Noun

pimpernel (plural pimpernels)

  1. (archaic) A plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga).
  2. Any of various plants of the genus Anagallis, having small red, white or purple flowers, especially the scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis).
    • Common Pimpernel has diverse weak square stalks lying on the ground, beset all along with two small and almost round leaves at every joint [...].1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 221
  3. Great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis)
  4. Salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor).
  5. (Canada, US) A yellow pimpernel (Taenidia integerrima)
  6. (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.

Phrases with pimpernels

Questions about pimpernels

What is pimpernels the plural of?
Pimpernels is the plural of pimpernel.

Words near pimpernels in the dictionary

  1. pimpdoms
  2. pimped
  3. pimped out
  4. pimped up
  5. pimpernel
  6. pimpernels
  7. pimpery
  8. pimphood
  9. pimpification
  10. pimpified
  11. pimpifies

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