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Pimpernel (medicine)


pimpernel
<botany> A plant of the genus Anagallis, of which one species (A. Arvensis) has small flowers, usually scarlet, but sometimes purple, blue, or white, which speedily close at the approach of bad weather. Water pimpernel.

<botany> See Brookweed.

Origin: F. Pimprenelle; cf. Sp. Pimpinela, It. Pimpinella; perh. From LL. Bipinnella, for bipinnula two-winged, equiv. To L. Bipennis; bis twice + penna feather, wing. Cf. Pen a feather.

Source: Websters Dictionary


patas (iou)



patas noun. M18.
[Senegalese French from Wolof pata.]
More fully patas monkey. A monkey, Erythrocebus patas, of grassland and savannahs in sub-Saharan Africa. Also called red monkey.