scarlet pimpernel

English

scarlet pimpernel

Noun

scarlet pimpernel (plural scarlet pimpernels)

1. (botany) A flowering plant, of species Lysimachia arvensis (syn. 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[.]

Translations

Lysimachia arvensis

• Catalan: anagall m, morró m
• Cornish: brathles m
• Dutch: guichelheil (nl) n, gewoon guichelheil n
• French: mouron des champs m, mouron rouge (fr) m
• German: Acker-Gauchheil (de) m
• Greek:

  Ancient Greek: ἀναγαλλίς f (anagallís), σαπάνα f (sapána)

• Turkish: farekulağı (tr), sıçankulağı (tr)
• Welsh: gwlyddyn Mair m

Further reading

• “scarlet pimpernel”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Lysimachia arvensis on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Lysimachia arvensis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Lysimachia arvensis on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons