bot.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):
(
s.xiii2/3;
MS: s.xiiim
)
La pinpernole e lancelee, Milfoil e bugle i seit posee
Nov Chir ANTS 1180
(
s.xiii2;
MS: c.1400
)
Pimpinella assimilatur saxifrag[i]e in foliis [...], gallice et anglice pympernele
Alph 146.32
(
MS: s.xiiiex
) pimpinella: (C) pimpernele
(var.
(D*: s.xiii/xiv) primerole;
(L: s.xiii) premeroel
)
TLL ii 142.76
(
MS: s.xv2
)
Pimpernella: (C6) gallice pympurnell, anglice selfhele
(var. (C8: s.xv1) pynpernele)
Plant Names 207
♦
pharm.med.pimpernel-based medicinal drink :
(
s.xiii2;
MS: s.xiii2
)
A tutes dolurs del quoer vault la pinpernele beut ou en cerveyse ou en vin
Med Pres1 135.24
(
c.1300?;
MS: s.xivm
)
A tute dolur de quer. Bevez la pimpernele, en fin garrez
Med Comp ANTS 952
pimpernele (s.xiii2/3)