pimpernel

Meaning of pimpernel

noun

a small European plant of the primrose family, with creeping stems and flat five-petalled flowers.

late Middle English (denoting the great burnet and the salad burnet): from Old French pimpernelle, based on Latin piper ‘pepper’ (because of the resemblance of the burnet's fruit to a peppercorn).

Information about pimpernel

  • It is a name.
  • The plural form of pimpernel is: pimpernels.
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Hyphenation of pimpernel

pim-per-nel

  • It consists of 3 syllables and 9 chars.
  • pimpernel is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables

Words that rhyme with pimpernel

Arnel, carnel, charnel, darnel, encharnel, garnel, parnel, starnel, uncharnel, warnel, enkernel, kernel, pernel, wynkernel, girnel, Cornel, cornel, ritornel, tournel, turnel

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