Usually means: Small flowering plant, elusive blooms.
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  1. pimpernel: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. pimpernel: Merriam-Webster
  3. pimpernel: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. pimpernel: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. pimpernel: Collins English Dictionary
  6. pimpernel: Vocabulary.com
  7. Pimpernel, pimpernel: Wordnik
  8. pimpernel: Wiktionary
  9. pimpernel: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. pimpernel: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. pimpernel: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. Pimpernel, pimpernel: Dictionary.com
  13. pimpernel: Online Etymology Dictionary
  14. Pimpernel: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Pimpernel: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. pimpernel: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. pimpernel: Rhymezone
  18. Pimpernel: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. pimpernel: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. pimpernel: FreeDictionary.org
  21. pimpernel: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. pimpernel: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. pimpernel: Encyclopedia

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  2. pimpernel: Medical dictionary

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  1. pimpernel: Urban Dictionary

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noun:  (now rare) A plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga).
noun:  Any of various plants of the genus Anagallis, having small red, white or purple flowers, especially the scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis).
noun:  Sanguisorba spp.
noun:  Great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis)
noun:  Salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor).
noun:  (Canada, US) A yellow pimpernel (Taenidia integerrima)
noun:  (figurative) 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.

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