yarrow

English

Wikipedia

a yarrow plant Achillea millefolium

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -ærəʊ

Etymology 1

Old English ġearwe Cognate with Dutch gerw (“yarrow”), (probably) German Schafgarbe.

Noun

yarrow (plural yarrows)

1. any of several pungent Eurasian and North American herbs, of the genus Achillea, used in traditional herbal medicine

Synonyms

• milfoil

Translations

any of several pungent Eurasian and North American herbs, of the genus Achillea

• Albanian: bari mijëfletësh (sq)
• Armenian: հազարատերևուկ (hy) (hazaraterewuk)
• Catalan: milfulles (ca) f
• Czech: řebříček (cs)
• Danish: røllike (da) c
• Dutch: gerw (nl) m and f, duizendblad (nl) n
• Estonian: raudrohi (et)
• Finnish: kärsämöt (fi)
• French: achillée (fr) f, mille-feuille (fr) f
• Galician: milfollas (gl) m
• German: Schafgarbe (de) f
• Greek: aγριαψιθιά (el) (agriapsithiá)
• Hungarian: cickafark (hu)
• Italian: millefoglio (it) m
• Jèrriais: hèrbe au tchèrpentchi f, tchèrpentchiéthe f

• Lithuanian: kraujažolė (lt)
• Macedonian: ајдучка трева (mk) (ájdučka tréva) f
• Navajo: hazéí yiltseeʼí
• Norwegian: ryllik (no) c
• Occitan: milafuèlhas (oc) m
• Old English: ġearwe (ang) f
• Old Saxon: garwa
• Polish: krwawnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: milefólio (pt) m
• Romanian: coada șoricelui (ro)
• Russian: тысячелистник (ru) (tysjačelístnik) m
• Serbo-Croatian: stolisnik (sh)
• Slovene: rman (sl)
• Spanish: milenrama (es) f
• Swedish: röllika (sv) c, rölleka (sv) c
• Welsh: milddail (cy)

External links

• Achillea on Wikispecies. Wikispecies: Achillea

Etymology 2

Wikipedia

Wikispecies

Noun

yarrow (plural yarrows)

1. (UK) The green woodpecker, Picus viridis.

Anagrams

• arrowy