Definitions for Burnet

Burnet bur·net

Spelling: [ber-net, bur-nit]
IPA: /bərˈnɛt, ˈbɜr nɪt/

Burnet is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 8 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 101 anagrams from letters in Burnet (benrtu).

Definitions for Burnet

noun

  1. any of several plants belonging to the genera Sanguisorba and Poterium, of the rose family, having pinnate leaves and dense heads of small flowers.
  2. Sir (Frank) Macfarlane [muh k-fahr-luh n] /məkˈfɑr lən/ (Show IPA), 1899–1985, Australian physician: Nobel Prize in Physiology 1960.

Origin of Burnet

1225-75; Middle English Middle French burnete, variant of brunete (see brunet); so called from its hue

Examples for Burnet

"burnet," said Mr. Checkynshaw, opening the window of the banking-room.

There was coffee on the table too, for Mr burnet was there, and Sally knew his tastes.

His cosmological ideas were based on those of burnet and Leibnitz.

burnet boasts that this part of the Bill of Rights was his work.

Visitors were rare in burnet, and the children regarded them always as a treat.

burnet was a partisan, but these are the words of more than partisanship.

He asked burnet what Mr. Checkynshaw wanted of him; but the cashier was dumb.

Bishop burnet takes notice of the discovery of this intrigue.

Nothing that was not a secret to burnet was likely to be long a secret to any body.

burnet was a 'gossiper, slanderer, and notorious falsifier of facts.'

Word Value for Burnet
Scrable

8

Words with friends

11

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