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scarlet pimpernels

scarlet pimpernels is the plural of scarlet pimpernel.

Meaning of scarlet pimpernel

Noun

scarlet pimpernel (plural scarlet pimpernels)

  1. A flowering plant, of species Lysimachia arvensis (syn. Anagallis arvensis), of the Primulaceae family, having small orange flowers.
    • [T]ogether they went north and were at Silloth in August, where James picked a scarlet pimpernel to press for her album[.]1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 65

Questions about scarlet pimpernels

What is scarlet pimpernels the plural of?
Scarlet pimpernels is the plural of scarlet pimpernel.

Words near scarlet pimpernels in the dictionary

  1. scarlet oak
  2. scarlet oaks
  3. scarlet percher
  4. scarlet perchers
  5. scarlet pimpernel
  6. scarlet pimpernels
  7. scarlet queening
  8. scarlet queenings
  9. scarlet red
  10. scarlet reds
  11. scarlet rosefinch

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