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BASTARD PIMPERNEL

Dictionary entry overview: What does bastard pimpernel mean?

• BASTARD PIMPERNEL (noun)
The noun BASTARD PIMPERNEL has 1 sense:

1. weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves

Familiarity information: BASTARD PIMPERNEL used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• BASTARD PIMPERNEL (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bastard pimpernel; chaffweed; false pimpernel

Hypernyms ("bastard pimpernel" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Holonyms ("bastard pimpernel" is a member of...):

Centunculus; genus Centunculus (a dicotyledonous genus of the family Primulaceae)

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