thousand-leaf

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English

a common yarrow or thousand-leaf, Achillea millefolium

Noun

thousand-leaf (usually uncountable, plural thousand-leaves)

  1. 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.


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