eyebright
English
Etymology
Noun
eyebright (countable and uncountable, plural eyebrights)
- Any of the flowering plants of the genus Lua error in Module:taxlink at line 68: Parameter "noshow" is not used by this template., 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.
- 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society 2016, p. 273:
Synonyms
Translations
any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia
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Further reading
- eyebright on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- Euphrasia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies