noun
1. European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads
• Syn: ↑burnet bloodwort, ↑pimpernel, ↑Poterium sanguisorba
• Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant
• Member Holonyms: ↑Poterium, ↑genus Poterium
2. leaves sometimes used for salad
• Hypernyms: ↑salad green, ↑salad greens
• Part Holonyms: ↑burnet bloodwort, ↑pimpernel, ↑Poterium sanguisorba
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noun : a European common garden burnet (Sanguisorba minor) sometimes eaten as a salad — called also burnet bloodwort
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a plant, Poterium sanguisorba, of the rose family, native to Eurasia, having rounded heads of small, greenish flowers in short spikes and edible leaves.
[1850-55]
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salad burnet noun
The common burnet
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Main Entry: ↑salad
Useful english dictionary. 2012.