burnet

Old French brunet, brunete (“brunette”). Doublet of brunette.

burnet (usually uncountable, plural burnets)

1. Any of the herbs of genus Sanguisorba (syn. Poterium, including
   1. salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor), an herb used in salads and herbal teas.
2. Any of several species of moths of the family Zygaenidae, typically having black forewings with red spots.
   • 2015, Norman Maclean, A Less Green and Pleasant Land, page 223:

     There are a few day-flying exceptions such as hummingbird hawk-moths, silver Ys, cinnabars, scarlet tigers and burnets but, in general, knowledge of moths lags behind that of butterflies.

• burnet bloodwort (Sanguisorba minor)
• burnet companion moth
• burnet moth
• burnet rose (Rosa spinosossima)
• burnet saxifrage (Pimpinella saxifraga)
• Canadian burnet (Sanguisorba canadensis)
• great burnet (Sanguisorba officinalis)
• lesser burnet (Sanguisorba minor)
• salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor)
• six-spot burnet
• thorny burnet (Sanguisorba spinosum)
• transparent burnet
• wild burnet (Sanguisorba canadensis)

• burnet at OneLook Dictionary Search
• burnet in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• Sanguisorba on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Sanguisorba on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Sanguisorba on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

• Brunet, Butner, beturn, brunet, bunter