pimpernel

FREQ #39036

n. 海绿属植物, 难以捉摸的事物, 一心追求的事物

发音

UK /ˈpɪmpənɛl/
其它

词形变化

pimpernels 复数 pimpernels

释义与例句

n.
  1. 1.

    A plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga).

    古体
  2. 2.

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

  3. 3.

    Sanguisorba spp.

    Great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis)

  4. 4.

    Sanguisorba spp.

    Salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor).

  5. 5.

    A yellow pimpernel (Taenidia integerrima)

    加拿大 美国
  6. 6.

    Someone resembling the fictional Scarlet Pimpernel; a gallant dashing resourceful man given to remarkable feats of bravery and derring-do in liberating victims of tyranny and injustice.

    比喻

    Lined up solidly with the Pimpernels and with the persecuted.

词汇关系

名词

同义词 1

salad burnet

上位词 1

herb

下位词 2

poor man's weatherglass scarlet pimpernel

部分词 1

salad burnet

相关短语

scarlet pimpernel n. 海绿 bastard pimpernel [网络] 混蛋pimpernel false pimpernel un. 陌上菜 [网络] 定经草 water pimpernel 水茴草(Samolus floribundus 或 Samolus valerandi)

词源

From Anglo-Norman pimpernele et al., Middle French pimpinelle (“burnet saxifrage”) et al., from Medieval Latin pimpinella, pipinella, most likely from piper (“pepper”) because its fruit resembled peppercorns, although variants may suggest other derivations, bipinnella the bipennis (“two-winged”).

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