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Red pimpernel   Listen
Red pimpernel

noun
1.
Herb with scarlet or white or purple blossoms that close at approach of rainy weather.  Synonyms: Anagallis arvensis, poor man's weatherglass, scarlet pimpernel.





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... was narrow, hardly wider than a lane, but on either side was a broad strip of turf, each strip quite twice the width of the metalled portion. On the verge of the dust the red pimpernel opened its flowers to the bright blue cloudless sky, and the lowly convolvulus grew thickly among the tall dusty bennets. Sweet short clover flowers stood but a little way back; still nearer the hedges the grass was coarser, ...
— Hodge and His Masters • Richard Jefferies


Words linked to "Red pimpernel" :   pimpernel, Anagallis arvensis, poor man's weatherglass


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