pimpernel

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga).
2. isim 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 [...].”

3. isim Great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis)
4. isim Salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor).
5. isim A yellow pimpernel (Taenidia integerrima)
6. isim 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.”