Found 2 items, similar to water pimpernel.
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Definition: water pimpernel
water pimpernel
n : a white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samolus
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Definition: Water pimpernel
Pimpernel
\Pim"per*nel\, n. [F. pimprenelle; cf. Sp. pimpinela,
It. pimpinella; perh. from LL. bipinnella, for bipinnula
two-winged, equiv. to L. bipennis; bis twice + penna feather,
wing. Cf.
Pen a feather.] (Bot.)
A plant of the genus
Anagallis, of which one species
(
Anagallis arvensis) has small flowers, usually scarlet,
but sometimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at
the approach of bad weather.
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Water pimpernel. (Bot.) See
Brookweed.
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Water pimpernel
\Wa“ter pim”per*nel\ (Bot.)
A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.
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