Wiktionary
n. A flowering plant, ''Anagallis arvensis'', of the Primulaceae family, having small orange flowers.
WordNet
n. herb with scarlet or white or purple blossoms that close at approach of rainy weather [syn: red pimpernel, poor man's weatherglass, Anagallis arvensis]
Wikipedia
Scarlet Pimpernel may refer to:
Fictions-
The Scarlet Pimpernel, a 1903 play and 1905 novel by Baroness Orczy
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (1917 film), an American adaption starring Dustin Farnum
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934 film), a British adaptation starring Leslie Howard
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982 film), a British adaptation featuring Anthony Andrews
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (musical), a 1997 Broadway adaptation, or the song of the same name from the musical
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (radio show), a British 1952-53 radio show
- The Adventures of the Scarlet Pimpernel, a British 1955 TV series
- The Scarlet Pimpernel (1999 TV series), a series loosely based on Orczy's novels
- "The Scarlet Pimpernel of the Vatican", a nickname of WWII hero Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty and also a radio play about him
- The Scarlet Pumpernickel, a 1949 Looney Tunes animated short film spoofing the Orczy works
- Anagallis arvensis, a low-growing, annual plant
- a cultivar of Mandevilla sanderi, a plant also called Dipladenia sanderi and Brazilian jasmine
Usage examples of "scarlet pimpernel".
Besides the Cowslip and the Primrose, this family includes the little Scarlet Pimpernel (Anagallis), as truly a herald of warm summer weather as the Primrose is of spring, the Yellow Loosestrife and the Moneywort (Lysimachia vulgaris and Nummularia), the handsome Water Violet (Hottonia) and the nodding Cyclamen or Sowbread, all of which have medicinal value to a greater or lesser degree.
From all accounts our friend Peter is as elusive as his ancestor, the Scarlet Pimpernel.
He is quite convinced and I am sure he is right that the Scarlet Pimpernel will be at his tricks again and risk everything in an attempt to drag the Saint-Lucque women out of our clutches.
At one time you used proudly to say: 'The League of The Scarlet Pimpernel has never failed.
The Scarlet Pimpernel had heroically resisted Chauvelin's torture for weeks before pretending to succumb.
He didn't love the abstraction, the Scarlet Pimpernel game she'd been playing.
The stamens, as in the Scarlet Pimpernel and others of this family, face their corresponding petals, instead of being alternate with them, and are also joined at their base to form a low ring.
Mother has shelves of books like that Graustark, The Scarlet Pimpernel.