water pimpernel

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   a white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samolus

   Broaderaquatic plant

   Narrowerbrookweed

   Part ofSamolus

Questions about water pimpernel

What does water pimpernel mean?

water pimpernel means "a white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samolus".

Is water pimpernel a common word?

water 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.