pimpernelとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈpɪmpənɛl/

名詞

pimpernel (複数形 pimpernels)

1. (now rare) A plant of the genus Pimpinella, especially burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga). [from 16th c.]
2. Any of various plants of the genus Anagallis, having small red, white or purple flowers, especially the scarlet pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis). [from 15th c.]
   • 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society, published 2007, page 221:

     Common Pimpernel has diverse weak square stalks lying on the ground, beset all along with two small and almost round leaves at every joint [...].

   • 1940, Rosetta E. Clarkson, Green Enchantments: The Magic Spell of Gardens, The Macmillan Company, page 272:

     Pimpernel (poor man's weather glass) was also a protection, but as the gatherer collected the herbs, he must chant a certain incantation and continue to do so twice a day for 15 days[.]

3. Sanguisorba spp. [from 16th c.]
   1. Great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis) [from 16th c.]
   2. Salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor). [from 16th c.]
4. (Canada, 米国用法) A yellow pimpernel (Taenidia integerrima)
5. (figurative) Someone resembling the fictional Scarlet Pimpernel; a gallant dashing resourceful man given to remarkable feats of bravery and derring-do in liberating victims of tyranny and injustice. [from 20th c.]
   • (Can we date this quote by Hal Lehrman かつ provide title, author’s full name, かつ other details?)

     Lined up solidly with the Pimpernels and with the persecuted.

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