Burnet
A surname.
A city, the county seat of Burnet County, Texas.
• Brunet, Butner, beturn, brunet, bunter
burnet (usually uncountable, plural burnets)
Any of the herbs of genus Sanguisorba (syn. Poterium), including
salad burnet (Sanguisorba minor), an herb used in salads and herbal teas.
Any of several species of moths of the family Zygaenidae, typically having black forewings with red spots.
• Brunet, Butner, beturn, brunet, bunter
Source: Wiktionary
Bur"net, n. Etym: [OE. burnet burnet; also, brownish (the plant perh. being named from its color), fr. F. brunet, dim. of brun brown; cf. OF. brunete a sort of flower. See Brunette.] (Bot.)
Definition: A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet. Burnet moth (Zoöl.), in England, a handsome moth (Zygæna filipendula), with crimson spots on the wings.
– Burnet saxifrage. (Bot.) See Saxifrage.
– Canadian burnet, a marsh plant (Poterium Canadensis).
– Great burnet, Wild burnet, Poterium (or Sanguisorba) oficinalis.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
The earliest credible evidence of coffee-drinking as the modern beverage appeared in modern-day Yemen. In the middle of the 15th century in Sufi shrines where coffee seeds were first roasted and brewed for drinking. The Yemenis procured the coffee beans from the Ethiopian Highlands.
