scarlet pimpernel

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scarlet pimpernel (plural scarlet pimpernels)

  1. (botany) A flowering plant, Anagallis arvensis, of the Primulaceae family, having small orange flowers.
    • 1977, K.M. Elizabeth Murray, Caught in the Web of Words, Oxford: Oxford University Press, page 65:
      [T]ogether they went north and were at Silloth in August, where James picked a scarlet pimpernel to press for her album[.]

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