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Pimpernel

noun

European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads. Synonyms: burnet bloodwort, Poterium sanguisorba, salad burnet.

Any of several plants of the genus Anagallis.

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"Pimpernel" Quotes from Famous Books

... The spiders from their cobwebs peep: Last night the sun went pale to bed, The moon in halos hid her head; The boding shepherd heaves a sigh, For, see, a rainbow spans the sky: The walls are damp, the ditches smell, Closed is the pink-eyed pimpernel. Hark how the chairs and tables crack! Old Betty's joints are on the rack; Loud quack the ducks, the peacocks cry, The distant hills are seeming nigh. How restless are the snorting swine; The busy flies disturb ...

— The Children's Garland from the Best Poets • Various

... my guide, and the ant also. But the little pimpernel, the poor man's weather-glass, and the convolvulus are truer than any barometer, and a glass ...

— Nature and Human Nature • Thomas Chandler Haliburton

... leaves of the horse chestnut are made up keep flat and fanlike so long as fine weather is likely to continue. With the coming of rain, however, they droop, as if to offer less resistance to the weather. The scarlet pimpernel, nicknamed the "poor man's weather glass," or wind cope, opens its flowers only to fine weather. As soon as rain is in the air it shuts up and remains closed until the ...

— Camping For Boys • H.W. Gibson

... and stems, even when not flowering. I cultivated it, in large numbers [162] during five succeeding generations, but was never able to find even the slightest indication of a reversion to the red prototype. The scarlet pimpernel or Anagallis arvensis has a blue variety which is absolutely constant. Even in Britton and Brown's "Flora," which rarely enumerates varieties, it is mentioned as being probably a distinct species. Eight hundred blooming seedlings were obtained from isolated parents, ...

— Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation • Hugo DeVries

Words linked to "Pimpernel" : Anagallis arvensis, Poterium, herbaceous plant, genus Anagallis, Anagallis tenella, herb, Anagallis, genus Poterium, poor man's weatherglass