Pimpernel
['pɪmpənel] or ['pɪmpɚnɛl]
Definition
(n.) A plant of the genus Anagallis, of which one species (A. arvensis) has small flowers, usually scarlet, but sometimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather.
Editor: Rhoda
Definition
n. a plant of the primrose family with reddish flowers—also Poor man's weather-glass Red chickweed.—n. Pimpinel′la a genus of umbelliferous plants—anise pimpernel breakstone.
Typed by Deirdre