What is "salad burnet"

Salad \Sal"ad\ (s[a^]l"ad), n. [F. salade, OIt. salata, It. insalata, fr. salare to salt, fr. L. sal salt. See Salt, and cf. Slaw.]

1. A preparation of vegetables, as lettuce, celery, water cress, onions, etc., usually dressed with salt, vinegar, oil, and spice, and eaten for giving a relish to other food; as, lettuce salad; tomato salad, etc.

   Leaves eaten raw are termed salad.
   --I. Watts.

2. A dish composed of chopped meat or fish, esp. chicken or lobster, mixed with lettuce or other vegetables, and seasoned with oil, vinegar, mustard, and other condiments; as, chicken salad; lobster salad.

   Salad burnet (Bot.), the common burnet ( Poterium Sanguisorba), sometimes eaten as a salad in Italy.

1. n. European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads [syn: burnet bloodwort, pimpernel, Poterium sanguisorba]

2. leaves sometimes used for salad