salad burnet

1. 1.

   European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads

   Synonymsburnet bloodwortpimpernelPoterium sanguisorba

   Broaderherb

   Part ofPoterium

   Partssalad burnet
2. 2.

   leaves sometimes used for salad

   Broadersalad green

   Part ofsalad burnet

Questions about salad burnet

What does salad burnet mean?

salad burnet means "European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for salad burnet?

Close synonyms include burnet bloodwort, pimpernel, Poterium sanguisorba. 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 salad burnet a common word?

salad burnet is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.