1bot.plant with red, purplish-red or white flowers, i.e. pimpernel (Anagallis arvensis), but also burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga), great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis) or salad burnets (Paterium sanguisorba):
(
MS: s.xii2
)
[...] sanicle, bugle, pimpre, egrimonie, reine, vetonie [...]
65.8
(
MS: s.xiii2/3
)
Pinpernele: pinpre
(M.E. briddestunge)
219.b35
♦
pharm.med.pimpernel-based medicinal drink:
(
MS: s.xv
)
Pus li donez a beivre chescune jour ces .iij. herbes [...]: pempre, bugle, sanicle
107.S191
pimpre (s.xii2)