red pimpernel

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   herb with scarlet or white or purple blossoms that close at approach of rainy weather

   Synonymsscarlet pimpernelpoor man's weatherglassAnagallis arvensis

   Broaderpimpernel

Questions about red pimpernel

What does red pimpernel mean?

red pimpernel means "herb with scarlet or white or purple blossoms that close at approach of rainy weather".

What is another word for red pimpernel?

Close synonyms include scarlet pimpernel, poor man's weatherglass, Anagallis arvensis. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is red pimpernel a common word?

red pimpernel is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.