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Noun A small plant of the primrose family, with creeping stems and flat fivepetaled flowers Genera Anagallis and Lysimachia, family Primulaceae several species, in particular the scarlet pimpernel 'As well as being a home to wildlife, it also has pockets of enchanted nightshade, yellow pimpernel and oak fern' More example sentences 'A rich diversity of plants thrive in the wet conditions at Greena Moor including bog pimpernel, marsh violet, sawwort and abundant meadow thistleNoun 0 0 Any of a genus ( Anagallis) of plants of the primrose family, esp the scarlet pimpernel ( A arvensis ), with red, white, or blue, starlike flowers which close in bad weather noun 0 0 (now rare) A plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially burnet saxifrage, Pimpinella saxifraga from 16th c nounNoun /ˈpɪmpənel/ /ˈpɪmpərnel/ jump to other results a small wild plant with red, white or blue flowers Word Origin late Middle English from Old French pimpernelle, based on Latin piper 'pepper' (bec