thousand-leaf
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English[edit]
Noun[edit]
thousand-leaf (usually uncountable, plural thousand-leaves)
- Achillea millefolium or common yarrow, a flowering plant widespread in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, featuring finely divided leaves.
- 1868, Gardeners Chronicle & New Horticulturist[1], page 525:
- Nose-blood, Thousand-leaf, Yarrow, is so well known that I need not waste time to describe it.
- 2011, Fran Kelso, Plant Lore of an Alaskan Island[2], page 112:
- Because of the many small parts of its leaves, yarrow is often known as milfoil, or thousand-leaves.
Translations[edit]
Achille millefolium — see common yarrow
See also[edit]
- Thousand-leaf on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Achillea millefolium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
- Achillea millefolium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons