Dictionary - Definition of BURNET

Common Expressions: BURNET

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Definition

The Burnet Companion Moth, (Euclidea glyphica) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. (references)

(Zo["o]l.), in England, a handsome moth (Zyg[ae]na filipendula), with crimson spots on the wings. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary.

Burnet O'Connor

Burnet O'Connor is a province in the Tarija Department, Bolivia. (references)

Burnet Park

Burnet Park is the largest park in Syracuse, New York, consisting of 88 acres (356,000 m²). It is located on the west end of the city, in the Far Westside neighborhood. It allows residents from the local area to participate in many actives. The facilities at the park includes three softball fields, a basketball court, an outdoor racquetball court, two tennis courts, a 50 meter pool, ice rink, nine hole par three golf course, and Rosamond Gifford Zoo. Most of the park is free to the public, except the golf course and zoo. (references)

Burnet saxifrage

A European umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella Saxifraga). Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary.

Burnet Saxifrage

Burnet Saxifrage is a plant, Pimpinella saxifraga of the family Umbelliferae a native of the British Isles and temperate Europe and western Asia. It is neither a Burnet, which its leaves resemble, nor a Saxifrage although it has a similar herbal effect as a diuretic. (references)

Canadian burnet

A marsh plant (Poterium Canadensis). Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary.

David G. Burnet

David Gouverneur Burnet (April 14, 1788 - December 5, 1870) was the president of the interim government of the Republic of Texas during 1836. (references)

Frank Macfarlane Burnet

Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet (born September 3, 1899 in Traralgon, Victoria; died August 31, 1985) was an Australian biologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1960, along with Peter Brian Medawar, for the discovery that the immune system of the fetus learns how to distinguish between self and non-self. (references)

Gilbert Burnet

Gilbert Burnet (September 18, 1643-March 17, 1715) was a Scottish divine and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch and French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Gilbert was respected as a cleric, a preacher, and an academic, as well as a writer and historian. (references)

Jacob Burnet

Jacob Burnet (1770-1853) was an American jurist and statesman from Ohio. He was born in Newark, New Jersey on February 22, 1770, the son of William Burnet. He studied law, moved to the Northwest Territory and settled in Cincinnati in 1796. Burnet was an associate justice on the Ohio Supreme Court from 1821 to 1828, and U.S. Senator from 1828 to 1831. His "Notes on the Early Settlement of the Northwest Territory" is a primary reference on the early Northwest. He died in Cincinnati on May 10, 1853, and is buried in the Spring Grove Cemetery there. (references)

Jean burnet

Jean R. Burnet is a Canadian Academic specializing in ethnic studies. Professor Jean Burnet, specialist in Canadian Ethnic Relations, founded the Glendon Sociology Department at York University. (references)

John Burnet

John Burnet (1781 or 1784-1868) was a Scottish engraver and painter. (references)

Salad burnet

Salad Burnet

Salad Burnet (Sanguisorba minor) is a plant in the family Rosaceae, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. It is a perennial herbaceous plant growing to 40-90 cm tall, typically found in dry grassy meadows, often on limestone soils. (references)

Six-spot Burnet

The Six-spot Burnet (Zygaena filipendulae) is a day-flying moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is a common species throughout Europe. (references)

Thomas Burnet

Thomas Burnet (1635? - 1715), theologian and writer on cosmogony, was born at Croft near Darlington, and educated at Cambridge, and became Master of Charterhouse and Clerk of the Closet to William III. His literary fame rests on his Telluris Theoria Sacra, or Sacred Theory of the Earth, published about 1692, first in Latin and afterwards in English, a work which, in absence of all scientific knowledge of the earth's structure, was necessarily a mere speculative cosmogony. It is written, however, with much eloquence. Some of the views expressed in another work, Archaeolgiae Philosophicae, were, however, so unacceptable to contemporary theologians that he had to resign his post at Court. (references)

William Burnet (1688-1728)

William Burnet (March, 1688-September 7, 1728) was a British civil servant and colonial administrator who served as governor of New York and New Jersey (1720-1728) and Massachusetts (1728). (references)

William Burnet (1730-1791)

William Burnet (1730-1791) was an American political leader and physician from Newark, New Jersey. He served in the Continental Army and the Continental Congress. (references)

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Extended Definition: BURNET

Burnet

Burnet may refer to:

Living things
- Plants in the genus Sanguisorba
- Moths in the genus Zygaena (family Zygaenidae, see for example Six-spot Burnet)
Places
- Burnet, Texas
- Burnet County, Texas
Food
- Salad Burnet or Burnet, European borage salad
People
- Alastair Burnet (1928-), British journalist
- Alexander Burnet
- David G. Burnet (1788-1870), president of the Republic of Texas
- David Burnet (Quebec politician)
- Gilbert Burnet (1643-1715), Scottish historian
- Frank Macfarlane Burnet (1895-1985), Australian biologist
- Guy Burnet
- Isaac G. Burnet
- Jacob Burnet
- Jean Burnet
- John Burnet (architect)
- John Burnet (classicist)
- John Burnet (painter)
- John James Burnet
- Robert Burnet, Lord Crimond
- Ronnie Burnet
- Thomas Burnet (1635? - 1715), theologian and writer on cosmogony
- William Burnet (1688-1729), British colonial administrator
- William Burnet (1730-1791), American physician and political leader

Language	Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Ardennais	pimpernelle (salad burnet, burnet, garden burnet). Additional references: Ardennais, France, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Balgarski	разваленка (burnet). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Balgarski (transliteration)	razvalenka (burnet). Additional references: Balgarski, Bulgaria, Greece, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Bohemian	krvavec toten (bloodwort, burnet). Additional references: Bohemian, Czech Republic, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Bulgarian	разваленка (burnet). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Bulgarian (transliteration)	razvalenka (burnet). Additional references: Bulgarian, Bulgaria, Greece, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Cestina	krvavec toten (bloodwort, burnet). Additional references: Cestina, Czech Republic, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Simplified	地榆属 (burnet). Additional references: Chinese Simplified, China, Brunei, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Chinese Traditional	地榆屬 (burnet). Additional references: Chinese Traditional, China, Brunei, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Czech	krvavec toten (bloodwort, burnet). Additional references: Czech, Czech Republic, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Deutsch	Pimpinelle (burnet, lesser burnet), Blutkraut (burnet, shepherd's sprout), Becherstrauch (burnet), Becherblume (burnet, burnet bloodwort). Additional references: Deutsch, Germany, Austria, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Français	boucage (burnet), sanguisorbe (burnet), pimprenelle (salad burnet, burnet, garden burnet). Additional references: Français, France, Algeria, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
French	boucage (burnet), sanguisorbe (burnet), pimprenelle (salad burnet, burnet, garden burnet). Additional references: French, France, Algeria, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Frioulan	pimpinele (burnet, Pimpinella). Additional references: Frioulan, Italy, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Frioulian	pimpinele (burnet, Pimpinella). Additional references: Frioulian, Italy, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Friulano	pimpinele (burnet, Pimpinella). Additional references: Friulano, Italy, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Friulian	pimpinele (burnet, Pimpinella). Additional references: Friulian, Italy, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Furlan	pimpinele (burnet, Pimpinella). Additional references: Furlan, Italy, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
German	Pimpinelle (burnet, lesser burnet), Blutkraut (burnet, shepherd's sprout), Becherstrauch (burnet), Becherblume (burnet, burnet bloodwort). Additional references: German, Germany, Austria, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguk Mal	오이풀 (burnet), 【식물】 오이풀속 (burnet). Additional references: Hanguk Mal, Korea, South, Korea, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Hanguohua	오이풀 (burnet), 【식물】 오이풀속 (burnet). Additional references: Hanguohua, Korea, South, Korea, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
High German	Pimpinelle (burnet, lesser burnet), Blutkraut (burnet, shepherd's sprout), Becherstrauch (burnet), Becherblume (burnet, burnet bloodwort). Additional references: High German, Germany, Austria, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Hochdeutsch	Pimpinelle (burnet, lesser burnet), Blutkraut (burnet, shepherd's sprout), Becherstrauch (burnet), Becherblume (burnet, burnet bloodwort). Additional references: Hochdeutsch, Germany, Austria, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Italian	tragoselino becchino (burnet), salvastrella (burnet, salad burnet), tragoselino (burnet), pimpinella (burnet). Additional references: Italian, Italy, Croatia, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Japanese	吾木香 (burnet), われもこう (burnet), バーネット (Barnet, Barnett, burnet). Additional references: Japanese, Japan, Taiwan, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Korean	오이풀 (burnet), 【식물】 오이풀속 (burnet). Additional references: Korean, Korea, South, Korea, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Priulian	pimpinele (burnet, Pimpinella). Additional references: Priulian, Italy, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Slovak	horák (burner, arc tube, burnet, torch). Additional references: Slovak, Slovakia, Hungary, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Slovakian	horák (burner, arc tube, burnet, torch). Additional references: Slovakian, Slovakia, Hungary, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
Spanish	pimpinela (burnet, pimpernel, garden burnet, salad burnet), sanguisorba (burnet). Additional references: Spanish, Spain, Mexico, burnet. (volunteer & more translations)
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Language	Translations for “burnet” or closest synonym(s); back translations in parentheses.
Athag	bathagurnathaget (burnet). Additional references: Athag, burnet. (volunteer)
Double Dutch	bagurnaget (burnet). Additional references: Double Dutch, burnet. (volunteer)
Leet	\|3(_)2{\}£-\|- (burnet). Additional references: Leet, burnet. (volunteer)
Oppish	bopurnopet (burnet). Additional references: Oppish, burnet. (volunteer)
Pig Latin	urnetbay (burnet). Additional references: Pig Latin, burnet. (volunteer)
Terran B	pimpirella (burnet). Additional references: Terran B, burnet. (volunteer)
Ubbi Dubbi	buburnubet (burnet). Additional references: Ubbi Dubbi, burnet. (volunteer)
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Ancestral and Extinct Language Translations: BURNET

Language	Period	Translations (or nearest inflections or synonyms, in parentheses)
Latin	500 BCE - 1700	Sanguisorba officinalis (burnet, garden burnet, great burnet), Pimpinella saxifraga (burnet, saxifrage, common burnet-saxifrage), Pimpinella major (burnet, saxifraga, greater burnet-saxifraga). Additional references: Latin, burnet. (volunteer)
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Part of Speech	Definition
Noun	1. A genus of perennial herbs (Poterium); especially, P.Sanguisorba, the common, or garden, burnet.[Websters].
Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)		Top

Domain	Definition
Noah Webster	[Noun] A plant, Poterium or garden burnet.. Source: Webster's 1828 American Dictionary.
Geography	Burnet is geographically located in South Africa. Its features include a farm (a tract of land with associated buildings devoted to agriculture). Its geographic coordinates are 30.75 degrees South latitude and 27.266667 degrees East longitude. (references)
Wiktionary	[Noun] (herb) an herb used in salads and herbal teas. (references)
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Definition: BURNET

Specialty Definition: BURNET

Common Expressions: BURNET

Extended Definition: BURNET

Burnet

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Topics by Level of Interest: BURNET

Translations: BURNET

Constructed Language Translations: BURNET

Ancestral and Extinct Language Translations: BURNET

Expressions	Definition
Burnet bloodwort	European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Burnet Companion Moth	The Burnet Companion Moth, (Euclidea glyphica) is a moth of the Noctuidae family. (references)
Burnet moth	(Zo["o]l.), in England, a handsome moth (Zyg[ae]na filipendula), with crimson spots on the wings. Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary.
Burnet O'Connor	Burnet O'Connor is a province in the Tarija Department, Bolivia. (references)
Burnet Park	Burnet Park is the largest park in Syracuse, New York, consisting of 88 acres (356,000 m²). It is located on the west end of the city, in the Far Westside neighborhood. It allows residents from the local area to participate in many actives. The facilities at the park includes three softball fields, a basketball court, an outdoor racquetball court, two tennis courts, a 50 meter pool, ice rink, nine hole par three golf course, and Rosamond Gifford Zoo. Most of the park is free to the public, except the golf course and zoo. (references)
Burnet saxifrage	A European umbelliferous plant (Pimpinella Saxifraga). Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary.
Burnet Saxifrage	Burnet Saxifrage is a plant, Pimpinella saxifraga of the family Umbelliferae a native of the British Isles and temperate Europe and western Asia. It is neither a Burnet, which its leaves resemble, nor a Saxifrage although it has a similar herbal effect as a diuretic. (references)
Canadian burnet	A marsh plant (Poterium Canadensis). Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary.
David G. Burnet	David Gouverneur Burnet (April 14, 1788 - December 5, 1870) was the president of the interim government of the Republic of Texas during 1836. (references)
Frank Macfarlane Burnet	Sir Frank MacFarlane Burnet (born September 3, 1899 in Traralgon, Victoria; died August 31, 1985) was an Australian biologist. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in medicine in 1960, along with Peter Brian Medawar, for the discovery that the immune system of the fetus learns how to distinguish between self and non-self. (references)
Gilbert Burnet	Gilbert Burnet (September 18, 1643-March 17, 1715) was a Scottish divine and historian, and Bishop of Salisbury. He was fluent in Dutch and French, Latin, Greek, and Hebrew. Gilbert was respected as a cleric, a preacher, and an academic, as well as a writer and historian. (references)
Jacob Burnet	Jacob Burnet (1770-1853) was an American jurist and statesman from Ohio. He was born in Newark, New Jersey on February 22, 1770, the son of William Burnet. He studied law, moved to the Northwest Territory and settled in Cincinnati in 1796. Burnet was an associate justice on the Ohio Supreme Court from 1821 to 1828, and U.S. Senator from 1828 to 1831. His "Notes on the Early Settlement of the Northwest Territory" is a primary reference on the early Northwest. He died in Cincinnati on May 10, 1853, and is buried in the Spring Grove Cemetery there. (references)
Jean burnet	Jean R. Burnet is a Canadian Academic specializing in ethnic studies. Professor Jean Burnet, specialist in Canadian Ethnic Relations, founded the Glendon Sociology Department at York University. (references)
John Burnet	John Burnet (1781 or 1784-1868) was a Scottish engraver and painter. (references)
Salad burnet	1: Leaves sometimes used for salad. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
	2: European garden herb with purple-tinged flowers and leaves that are sometimes used for salads. Source: Wordnet 3.0 Copyright © 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
Salad Burnet	Salad Burnet (Sanguisorba minor) is a plant in the family Rosaceae, native to western, central and southern Europe, northwest Africa and southwest Asia. It is a perennial herbaceous plant growing to 40-90 cm tall, typically found in dry grassy meadows, often on limestone soils. (references)
Six-spot Burnet	The Six-spot Burnet (Zygaena filipendulae) is a day-flying moth of the family Zygaenidae. It is a common species throughout Europe. (references)
Thomas Burnet	Thomas Burnet (1635? - 1715), theologian and writer on cosmogony, was born at Croft near Darlington, and educated at Cambridge, and became Master of Charterhouse and Clerk of the Closet to William III. His literary fame rests on his Telluris Theoria Sacra, or Sacred Theory of the Earth, published about 1692, first in Latin and afterwards in English, a work which, in absence of all scientific knowledge of the earth's structure, was necessarily a mere speculative cosmogony. It is written, however, with much eloquence. Some of the views expressed in another work, Archaeolgiae Philosophicae, were, however, so unacceptable to contemporary theologians that he had to resign his post at Court. (references)
William Burnet (1688-1728)	William Burnet (March, 1688-September 7, 1728) was a British civil servant and colonial administrator who served as governor of New York and New Jersey (1720-1728) and Massachusetts (1728). (references)
William Burnet (1730-1791)	William Burnet (1730-1791) was an American political leader and physician from Newark, New Jersey. He served in the Continental Army and the Continental Congress. (references)
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Topics by Level of Interest: BURNET
Topics sorted by level of Interest	Level (1=low, 600=high)	Topics sorted Alphabetically	Level (1=low, 600=high)
Frank Macfarlane Burnet	49	Alastair Burnet	5
David G. Burnet	42	Alexander Burnet	25
Alexander Burnet	25	Burnet	3
Burnet County, Texas	24	Burnet Companion Moth	4
John Burnet	20	Burnet Consolidated Independent School District	4
William Burnet	20	Burnet County, Texas	24
Guy Burnet	17	Burnet Elementary School	8
Burnet R. Maybank	14	Burnet Elementary School (Galveston, Texas)	6
William Burnet (administrator)	13	Burnet Institute	3
Isaac G. Burnet	10	Burnet Maybank III	8
Burnet v. Logan	9	Burnet O'Connor Province	6
Six-spot Burnet	9	Burnet Park	3
Gilbert Burnet	9	Burnet R. Maybank	14
Burnet Maybank III	8	Burnet Saxifrage	4
John Burnet (painter)	8	Burnet v. Logan	9
North American Oil Consolidated v. Burnet	8	Burnet v. Sanford & Brooks Co.	7
Burnet Elementary School	8	Burnet Woods	3
List of books by Frank Macfarlane Burnet	7	David Burnet	2
Ronnie Burnet	7	David Burnet (Quebec politician)	3
Jacob Burnet	7	David G. Burnet	42
Burnet v. Sanford & Brooks Co.	7	Dorsa Burnet	3
John Burnet (classicist)	6	Fire Grid Burnet	4
Burnet O'Connor Province	6	Frank Macfarlane Burnet	49
Burnet Elementary School (Galveston, Texas)	6	Gilbert Burnet	9
Thomas Burnet	5	Guy Burnet	17
Alastair Burnet	5	Isaac G. Burnet	10
William Burnet (1730-1791)	5	Jacob Burnet	7
Salad Burnet	4	Jean Burnet	2
Burnet Consolidated Independent School District	4	John Burnet	20
John James Burnet	4	John Burnet (architect)	3
Burnet Saxifrage	4	John Burnet (classicist)	6
Burnet Companion Moth	4	John Burnet (painter)	8
Fire Grid Burnet	4	John James Burnet	4
John Burnet (architect)	3	List of books by Frank Macfarlane Burnet	7
Burnet	3	North American Oil Consolidated v. Burnet	8
Burnet Park	3	Ronnie Burnet	7
David Burnet (Quebec politician)	3	Salad Burnet	4
Burnet Woods	3	Six-spot Burnet	9
Burnet Institute	3	Thomas Burnet	5
Dorsa Burnet	3	William Burnet	20
William Burnet Kinney	2	William Burnet (1730-1791)	5
David Burnet	2	William Burnet (administrator)	13
Jean Burnet	2	William Burnet Kinney	2
Source: the editor, created by/for EVE to gauge likely levels of human interest in linguistically triggered topics (compiled across various sources, such as Wikipedia and specialty expression glosses).