Prunella (other)
Prunella may refer to: * ''Prunella'' (bird), also known as accentors or dunnocks * ''Prunella'' (plant), also known as self-heal * Prunella (grape), French wine grape also known as Cinsaut * Prunella (fairy tale), an Italian fairy tale * ''Prunella'' (film), 1918 silent film starring Marguerite Clark * Prunella (given name) * Prunella (horse), a Thoroughbred racehorse and broodmare * Bargnolino Bargnolino is an Italian variation of sloe gin, made by soaking sloe fruits from the blackthorn plant, ''Prunus spinosa'', with sugar and spices in spirit alcohol. This results in a reddish, sweet liquor, around 40-45% alcohol by volume Alcohol ..., or sometimes prunella, Italian sloe gin * Prunella (cloth), an 18th-century worsted fabric. {{disambig, genus ...
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Prunella (bird)
The accentors are a genus of birds in the family Prunellidae, which is endemic to the Old World. This small group of closely related passerines are all in the genus ''Prunella''. All but the dunnock and the Japanese accentor are inhabitants of the mountainous regions of Europe and Asia; these two also occur in lowland areas, as does the Siberian accentor in the far north of Siberia. These birds are not strongly migratory, but they will leave the coldest parts of their range in winter and make altitudinal movements. Taxonomy and etymology The genus ''Prunella'' was introduced by the French ornithologist Louis Vieillot in 1816 with the dunnock (''Prunella modularis'') as the type species. Although the genus is usually used for all the accentors, the alpine accentor and Altai accentor are sometimes separated into the genus ''Laiscopus''.HBW Volume 10, page 496. Harrison used the group name dunnock for all of the species, not just ''Prunella modularis'' (thus e.g. Japanese dunno ...
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