pimpernel

English - Turkish

Definition of pimpernel in English Turkish dictionary

farekulağı

(isim) farekulağı

farekulak

English - English

Definition of pimpernel in English English dictionary

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. -- Hal Lehrman.

Any of various plants, of the genus Anagallis, having small red, white or purple flowers; especially the scarlet pimpernel, Anagallis arvensis

any of several plants of the genus Anagallis

A plant of the genus Anagallis, of which one species A

A pimpernel is a small wild plant that usually has red flowers. a small wild plant with flowers in various colours, especially red (pimprenelle, from pimpinella, from piper )

European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads

{i} herb from the primrose family

arvensis has small flowers, usually scarlet, but sometimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather

Related Terms

false pimpernel

A type of figwort, Lindernia dubia, found in wet or muddy places

false pimpernel

Alternative name for chaffweed

scarlet pimpernel

A flowering plant, Anagallis arvensis, of the Primulaceae family, having small orange flowers

blue pimpernel

an American mint that yields a resinous exudate used especially formerly as an antispasmodic

bog pimpernel

small creeping European herb having delicate pink flowers

pimpernels

plural of pimpernel

scarlet pimpernel

The pimpernel. the main character in the adventure story The Scarlet Pimpernel (1905) by Baroness Orczy. The "Scarlet Pimpernel" is the name used by Sir Percy Blakeney, an Englishman who uses many clever disguises (=ways of changing your clothes and appearance so that people do not recognize you) in order to help French people from a high social class to escape from France, and from the possibility of having their heads cut off by the guillotine during the French Revolution. There is a well-known short poem about him, which begins with the words "They seek him here, they seek him there...", and is about how difficult it is to find the Scarlet Pimpernel

scarlet pimpernel

herb with scarlet or white or purple blossoms that close at approach of rainy weather

water pimpernel

A small white- flowered shrub; brookweed

water pimpernel

a white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samolus

yellow pimpernel

trailing European evergreen with yellow flowers

Hyphenation

pim·per·nel

Etymology

() From late Latin pimpinella