Water pimpernel

Wa´ter pim´per`nel

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(Bot.) A small white-flowered shrub; brookweed.

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water pimpernel - a white-flowered aquatic plant of the genus Samolus genus Samolus, Samolus - genus of herbs usually growing in salt marshes: water pimpernels Samolus valerandii, brookweed - water pimpernel of Europe to China brookweed, Samolus floribundus, Samolus parviflorus - American water pimpernel aquatic plant, hydrophyte, hydrophytic plant, water plant - a plant that grows partly or wholly in water whether rooted in the mud, as a lotus, or floating without anchorage, as the water hyacinth