BASTARD PIMPERNEL

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does bastard pimpernel mean? 

• BASTARD PIMPERNEL (noun)
  The noun BASTARD PIMPERNEL has 1 sense:

1. weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves

  Familiarity information: BASTARD PIMPERNEL used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• BASTARD PIMPERNEL (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Weedy plant having short dry chafflike leaves

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bastard pimpernel; chaffweed; false pimpernel

Hypernyms ("bastard pimpernel" is a kind of...):

subshrub; suffrutex (low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base)

Holonyms ("bastard pimpernel" is a member of...):

Centunculus; genus Centunculus (a dicotyledonous genus of the family Primulaceae)