{Salad burnet} (Bot.), the common burnet ({Poterium
Sanguisorba}), sometimes eaten as a salad in Italy.
salad burnet
n 1: European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves
that are sometimes used for salads [syn: {burnet
bloodwort}, {pimpernel}, {Poterium sanguisorba}]
2: leaves sometimes used for salad