Definition of Pimpinella

1. Noun. Anise.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Pimpinella

Pilsener
Pilsner
Piltdown hoax
Piltdown man
Piltz
Piltz sign
Pilularia
Pilularia globulifera
Pima
Pimbwe
Pimenta acris
Pimenta dioica
Pimenta officinalis
Pimentón de La Vera
Pimlico
Pimpinella
Pimpinella anisum
Pimpri-Chinchwad
Pinaceae
Pinard
Pinard's manoeuvre
Pinatubo
Pinay
Pinays
Pinchas Zukerman
Pinckneya
Pinckneya pubens
Pinctada
Pinctada margaritifera
Pincus

Literary usage of Pimpinella

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

1. Hand-book of Chemistry by Leopold Gmelin, Henry Watts (1860)
"Oil of pimpinella. a. From the root of the common Burnet-saxifrage, ... From tho root of pimpinella nigra, Willd. — The root contains 0'38 p с. of the oil, ..."

2. Medical Lexicon: A Dictionary of Medical Science ... with French and Other by Robley Dunglison (1860)
"... from the double pennate order of its leaves,) see pimpinella. ... pimpinella ALBA, P. saxifraga —p. ... PIMPRENELLE, pimpinella saxifraga—^. ..."

3. A Practical Treatise on Animal and Vegetable Fats and Oils: Comprising Both by William Theodore Brannt, Karl Schaedler (1896)
"The roots of the small burnet saxifrage, pimpinella Saxifraga, L, ... The root of pimpinella nigra, Willd., yields by distillation with water a beautiful ..."

4. A Dictionary of Practical Materia Medica by John Henry Clarke (1902)
"pimpinella. pimpinella saxifraga. Burnet saxifrage. Bibernell. ... The majority of the symptoms of pimpinella were obtained by Schelling from chewing the ..."

5. English Botany; Or, Coloured Figures of British Plants, with Their Essential ...by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby by Sir James Edward Smith, James Sowerby (1803)
"[ 407 ] pimpinella ... SPEC. CHAR. Leaves pinnate : leaflets of the radical ones roundish ; those of the uppermost linear. SYN. pimpinella ..."

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