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burnet Salad burnet, a wild plant (Poterium sanguisorba) growing in grassland on chalky soil. The leaves have the flavour of cucumber, and can be used to flavour fruit wines, vinegar, and butter, and are used in salads. Also called pimpernel.

A Dictionary of Food and Nutrition DAVID A. BENDER

burnet

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burnet plant of the genus Sanguisorba or Poterium. XIV. sb. use of ME. burnet (XII) dark-brown — OF. burnete BRUNETTE.

The Concise Oxford Dictionary of English Etymology T. F. HOAD

burnet

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burnet See ZYGAENIDAE.

A Dictionary of Zoology MICHAEL ALLABY

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