1. European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads
   "She added fresh salad burnet leaves to the mixed greens";
   - burnet bloodwort, pimpernel, Poterium sanguisorba
    
2. Leaves sometimes used for salad
   "She added a handful of salad burnet leaves to give the mixed greens a cucumber-like flavour"

Derived forms: salad burnets

Type of: herb, herbaceous plant, salad green, salad greens

Part of: genus Poterium, Poterium

Encyclopedia: Salad burnet