burnet

See also: Burnet

English

leaves of burnet (Sanguisorba minor)

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Old French brunet, brunete (“brunette”). Doublet of brunette.

Noun

burnet (usually uncountable, plural burnets)

1. Any of the herbs of genus Sanguisorba (syn. , including
   1. salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor), an herb used in salads and herbal teas.
2. 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 ()
• burnet saxifrage ()
• Canadian burnet ()
• great burnet ()
• lesser burnet (Sanguisorba minor)
• salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor)
• six-spot burnet
• thorny burnet ()
• transparent burnet
• wild burnet ()

Translations

herb

• Bulgarian: динка f (dinka), разваленка f (razvalenka)
• Finnish: luppio (fi)
• French: pimprenelle (fr) f
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• Italian: pimpinella f, salvastrella f, meloncello m
• Japanese: 吾木香, 吾亦紅 (われもこう, waremokō)
• Polish: krwiściąg (pl) m

moth

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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

Anagrams

• Brunet, Butner, beturn, brunet, bunter