Word Finder - pimpernel

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A plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially burnet saxifrage, Pimpinella saxifraga.

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Any of various plants of the genus Anagallis, having small red, white or purple flowers, especially the scarlet pimpernel, Anagallis arvensis.

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Sanguisorba spp.

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A yellow pimpernel (Taenidia integerrima)

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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.

Flushes on the acidic Barden and Blubberhouses moors are home to bog pimpernel and bog pondweed.

Less common specialities of these boggy areas include bog pimpernel, bog asphodel, round-leaved sundew and pale butterwort.

To the SOE, the Lysander was known as the ' scarlet pimpernel of the air ' .

In damper areas lesser celandine is followed by ransoms, or wild garlic and yellow pimpernel can be found.

Scarlet Pimpernel, beautiful colored scarlet with a purple eye in pairs that close in the afternoon.

It was the name of a classic Western starring Robert Mitchum and the title of a book about the swashbuckling hero "The Scarlet Pimpernel" by Baroness Orczy.

The flowers are solitary in the leaf-axils as in pimpernel, money-wort, &c., or umbelled as in primrose, where the umbel is sessile, and cowslip, where it is stalked, or in racemes or spikes as in species of Lysimachia.