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burnet
/ˈbɚnɪt/
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What does burnet mean?
noun
- 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.
proper noun
- A surname.
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proper noun
- A city, the county seat of Burnet County, Texas, United States.
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I said, Burnet had treated him severely; that is, I chose that Burnet should say so, rather than myself.
Whiston and Burnet, so devoted to what they considered sacred science, had determined that in some way comets must be instruments of Divine wrath.
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Edited, with an Introduction and Notes, by JOHN BURNET, M.A. Cheaper issue.
The only vegetation, that was met with, was a coarse strong-bladed grass, growing in tufts, wild burnet, and a plant like moss, which sprang from the rocks.
He rode to the scaffold in his own carriage, attended by two famous clergymen, Tillotson and Burnet, and sang a psalm to himself very softly, as he went along.