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pim⋅per⋅nel

  [pim-per-nel, -nl]
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–noun
a plant belonging to the genus Anagallis, of the primrose family, esp. A. arvensis (scarlet pimpernel), having scarlet or white flowers that close at the approach of bad weather.
Origin:
1400–50; late ME pympernele < MF pimprenelle, nasalized var. of OF piprenelle < LL *piperīnella, equiv. to piper pepper + -īn- -ine 1 + -ella dim. suffix; r. OE pipeneale < LL pipīnella, syncopated var. of *piperīnella
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pim·per·nel   (pĭm'pər-něl', -nəl)   
n.  Any of various plants of the genus Anagallis, especially the scarlet pimpernel (A. arvensis) having opposite, entire leaves and small red, purple, or white flowers.

[Middle English pimpernelle, from Old French, alteration of piprenelle, from Late Latin pimpinella, perhaps from Latin piper, pepper; see pepper.]
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pimpernel 
c.1400, from O.Fr. pimprenelle, earlier piprenelle (12c.), from M.L. pipinella "a medicinal plant," perhaps from *piperinus "pepper-like" (so called because its fruits resemble peppercorns), a derivative of L. piper "pepper" (see pepper). "The Scarlet Pimpernel" was the code name of the hero in an adventure novel of that name published 1905.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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pimpernel

(genus Anagallis), any of several plants of the primrose family (Primulaceae), consisting of about 30 species of low herbs mostly native to western Europe.

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