Pimpernel

/pˈɪmpənə‍l/

/pˈɪmpɚnəl/

[noun]

Pimpernel

[NOUN]

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

synonyms : burnet bloodwort

Poterium sanguisorba

salad burnet

any of several plants of the genus Anagallis

Examples

1. I didn't even know a pimpernel was a flower.

2. so it's ready for action when something like a tiny crustacean bumps up against trigger hairs on the door it opens in about half a millisecond the walls expand sucks in water and the prey and closes in about 2.5 millisecond the next fastest by comparison are Pimpernel sundews when something stimulates the tip of its tentacle its tentacle snatches the praying about 75 milliseconds

Nearby words