yarrow
Part of speech: noun
Morphological type: simple
Etymology: From Middle English ȝarowe, yarowe, yarwe, from Old English ġearwe, from Proto-West Germanic *garwā (“yarrow, yarrow-like herbs”), perhaps derived from *garu (“prepared, ready (of food)”), as the plant was used medicinally for digestion.
Cognate with Dutch gerw (“yarrow”) and German (Schaf-)garbe.
Inflected forms:
form: yarrows
pos: noun
tags: plural
Senses:
gloss: Any of several pungent Eurasian and North American herbs, of the genus Achillea, used in traditional herbal medicine.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: Yarrow is one of the aboriginal English plants, and from time immemorial it has been used in incantations and by witches. Country folk still regard it as one of our most valuable herbs, especially for rheumatism.
gloss: Common yarrow, Achillea millefolium, the type species of the genus.
pos: noun
tags: uncountable
usually
examples: The Yarrow, where-with-all he stops the wound-made gore:
“Oh, yarrow! This is it,” she said, extracting a single long stemmed ferny grass with clusters of small white flowers from the bouquet in her hand.
Synonyms: milfoil
achillea
yarrow
bloodwort
nosebleed plant
old man's pepper
European green woodpecker
hewhole
hickwall
green woodpecker
whetile
whitwall
yaffingale
yaffle
yaffler
yockel
Derived words: golden yarrow
yellow yarrow
Translations:
lang: Albanian
word: bari mijëfletësh
lang: Arabic
word: قَيْصُوم
roman: qayṣūm
lang: Armenian
word: հազարատերևուկ
roman: hazaraterewuk
lang: Armenian
word: բացմենակ
roman: bacʻmenak
lang: Bulgarian
word: бял равнец
roman: bjal ravnec
lang: Catalan
word: milfulles
lang: Chinese Mandarin
word: 蓍
roman: shī
lang: Czech
word: řebříček
lang: Danish
word: røllike
lang: Dutch
word: duizendblad
lang: Dutch
word: gerw
lang: Estonian
word: raudrohi
lang: Finnish
word: kärsämö
lang: French
word: achillée
lang: French
word: mille-feuille
lang: Galician
word: milfollas
lang: Georgian
word: ფარსმანდუკი
roman: parsmanduḳi
lang: German
word: Schafgarbe
lang: Greek
word: αγριαψιθιά
roman: agriapsithiá
lang: Halkomelem
word: xaweqá:l
lang: Hungarian
word: cickafark
lang: Irish
word: athair thalún
lang: Irish
word: luibh na ndaitheacha
lang: Italian
word: millefoglio
lang: Latin
word: mīlifolium
lang: Latvian
word: pelašķis
lang: Laz
word: სოხადია
roman: soxadia
lang: Lithuanian
word: kraujažolė
lang: Macedonian
word: а́јдучка тре́ва
roman: ájdučka tréva
lang: Macedonian
word: ајду́чица
roman: ajdúčica
lang: Macedonian
word: сто́лисник
roman: stólisnik
lang: Middle English
word: yarwe
lang: Navajo
word: hazéí yiltseeʼí
lang: Norman
word: hèrbe au tchèrpentchi
lang: Norman
word: tchèrpentchiéthe
lang: Norwegian Bokmål
word: ryllik
lang: Norwegian Nynorsk
word: ryllik
lang: Occitan
word: milafuèlhas
lang: Old English
word: ġearwe
lang: Old Saxon
word: garwa
lang: Polish
word: krwawnik
lang: Portuguese
word: milefólio
lang: Romanian
word: coada șoricelului
lang: Russian
word: тысячели́стник
roman: tysjačelístnik
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: hajdučka trava
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: kunica
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: сто̀лиснӣк
lang: Serbo-Croatian
word: stòlisnīk
lang: Slovene
word: rman
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: rotwica
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: źiwa garba
lang: Lower Sorbian
word: kšawnik
lang: Spanish
word: milenrama
lang: Spanish
word: plumajillo
lang: Spanish
word: perejil bravío
lang: Swedish
word: röllika
lang: Swedish
word: rölleka
lang: Turkish
word: civanperçemi
lang: Unami
word: anshikëmënshi
lang: Welsh
word: milddail