Definition of Blue pimpernel

1. Noun. An American mint that yields a resinous exudate used especially formerly as an antispasmodic.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Pimpernel

blue mussels
blue naevus
blue nevus
blue noise
blue note
blue notes
blue oedema
blue ointment
blue orchid
blue pea
blue peafowl
blue peter
blue pickerel
blue pike
blue pikeperch
blue pimpernel (current term)
blue plate special
blue plate specials
blue point
blue point Siamese
blue pointed
blue poppy
blue print
blue prints
blue pus
blue pus bacillus
blue racer
blue ribbon
blue ribbon commission
blue ribbon committee

Literary usage of Blue pimpernel

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Flora historica: or, The three seasons of the British parterre historically by Henry Phillips (1829)
"Pliny remarks that sheep avoid the blue pimpernel, but eat the scarlet kind, ... He adds, that when a sheep has by accident eaten of the blue pimpernel, ..."

2. Hortus Kewensis: Or, A Catalogue of the Plants Cultivated in the Royal by William Aiton (1789)
"Italian blue Pimpernel. Nat. of Italy. Cult. 1648, in Oxford Garden. Hart. oxon. edit. 1. p. 4. no. 8. Fl. May September. GH If. 3. ..."

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