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/ˈpɪmpənɛl/ · noun
(now rare) A plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga)..
Common Pimpernel has diverse weak square stalks lying on the ground, beset all along with two small and almost round leaves at every joint [...].
Pimpernel (poor man's weather glass) was also a protection, but as the gatherer collected the herbs, he must chant a certain incantation and continue to do so twice a day for 15 days[.]
Lined up solidly with the Pimpernels and with the persecuted.
Use pimpernel when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Pimpernel means (now rare) A plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga)..
Common synonyms include salad burnet, burnet bloodwort, poterium sanguisorba.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
Common Pimpernel has diverse weak square stalks lying on the ground, beset all along with two small and almost round leaves at every joint [...].
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