burnet
See also: Burnet
English
Etymology
(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French brunet, brunete (“brunette”). Doublet of brunette.
Noun
burnet (usually uncountable, plural burnets)
- Any of the herbs of genus Sanguisorba (syn. Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template., including
- salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor), an herb used in salads and herbal teas.
- Any of several species of moths of the family Zygaenidae, typically having black forewings with red spots.
- 2015, Norman Maclean, A Less Green and Pleasant Land, page 223:
- There are a few day-flying exceptions such as hummingbird hawk-moths, silver Ys, cinnabars, scarlet tigers and burnets but, in general, knowledge of moths lags behind that of butterflies.
Derived terms
- burnet bloodwort (Sanguisorba minor)
- burnet companion moth
- burnet moth
- burnet rose (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- burnet saxifrage (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "ver" is not used by this template.)
- Canadian burnet (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- great burnet (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- lesser burnet (Sanguisorba minor)
- salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor)
- six-spot burnet
- thorny burnet (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
- transparent burnet
- wild burnet (Lua error in Module:parameters at line 797: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template.)
Translations
herb
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moth
References
- “burnet”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
- “burnet”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
- Sanguisorba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Sanguisorba on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Sanguisorba on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons