eyebright

English

The common eyebright, Euphrasia rostkoviana. Mallnitz, Austria.

Etymology

From eye +‎ bright.

Noun

eyebright (countable and uncountable, plural eyebrights)

1. Any of the flowering plants of the genus , originally as used to treat eye infections. [from 16th c.]
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 273:

     Paracelsus had been recommending the plant eyebright for bad eyes in the sixteenth century; it was still in widespread use in the eighteenth.

Synonyms

• euphrasy

Translations

any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia

• Bulgarian: очанка f (očanka)
• Czech: světlík (cs) m
• Dutch: ^{(please verify)} ogentroost (nl)
• French: euphraise (fr) f
• German: ^{(please verify)} Augentrost (de)
• Ido: eufrazio (io)
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• Irish: glanrosc m, líon radhairc m, rinn roisc f, roisnín m, roisnín radhairc m, soilse na súl f
• Italian: euphrasia f
• Polish: świetlik (pl) m
• Russian: оча́нка (ru) f (očánka)
• Spanish: ^{(please verify)} ojo brillante m

Further reading

• eyebright on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Euphrasia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies