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Definition of Blue pimpernel
1. Noun. An American mint that yields a resinous exudate used especially formerly as an antispasmodic.
Exact synonyms: Blue Skullcap, Mad-dog Skullcap, Mad-dog Weed, Scutellaria Lateriflora
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Generic synonyms: Herb, Herbaceous Plant
Lexicographical Neighbors of Blue Pimpernel
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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