burnet /bûrˈnit/

Dark brown

1. A fine dark woollen cloth of the Middle Ages
2. The name of two closely related rosaceous plants, the great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis or Poterium officinale), a meadow-plant, and common or salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor) sometimes used in salads, both with close aggregates of brownish-purple flowers
3. The burnet moth

burnet moth noun

A moth of the family Zygaenidae, esp of the genus Zygaena, with red-spotted or red-streaked forewings

burnet rose or burnet-leaved rose noun

A wild rose (Rosa spinosissima) with leaves like burnet, the Scotch rose

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