Salad burnet Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads
    Poterium sanguisorba; burnet bloodwort; pimpernel.
  2. noun leaves sometimes used for salad

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

Webster 1913