yarrow

See also: Yarrow

English

a yarrow plant Achillea millefolium

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjæɹəʊ/

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• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈjɛɹoʊ/
• Rhymes: -æɹəʊ

Etymology 1

From Middle English ȝarowe, yarowe, yarwe, from Old English ġearwe, from Proto-West Germanic *garwu (“yarrow, yarrow-like herbs”). Cognate with Dutch gerw (“yarrow”) and German (Schaf-)garbe.

Noun

yarrow (usually uncountable, plural yarrows)

1. Any of several pungent Eurasian and North American herbs, of the genus Achillea, used in traditional herbal medicine.
2. Common yarrow, Achillea millefolium, the type species of the genus.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 13 p. 218[1]:

     The Yarrow, where-with-all he stops the wound-made gore:

   • 1979, Victor Kaplan, The Woman who Gathered Yarrow; The Box; Miss Vesey's Other Leg, →ISBN, page 11:

     “Oh, yarrow! This is it,” she said, extracting a single long stemmed ferny grass with clusters of small white flowers from the bouquet in her hand.

Synonyms

• (Achillea spp.): milfoil, achillea
• (Achillea millefolium): devil's nettle, sanguinary, soldier's woundwort, thousand-leaf
• See also Thesaurus:yarrow

Hyponyms

• Alps yarrow, Achillea distans
• Chinese yarrow, Achillea alpina
• Egyptian yarrow, Achillea aegyptiaca
• fernleaf yarrow, Achillea filipendulina
• Ligurian yarrow, Achillea ligustica
• noble yarrow, Achillea nobilis
• Siberian yarrow, Achillea sibirica

Translations

herb of the genus Achillea

• Albanian: bari mijëfletësh
• Arabic: قَيْصُوم‎ m (qayṣūm)
• Armenian: հազարատերևուկ (hazaraterewuk), բացմենակ (hy) (bacʿmenak)
• Azerbaijani: please add this translation if you can
• Bulgarian: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: milfulles f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蓍 (zh) (shī)

• Czech: řebříček (cs)
• Danish: røllike c
• Dutch: gerw (nl) m or f, duizendblad (nl) n
• Estonian: raudrohi
• Finnish: kärsämö (fi)
• French: achillée (fr) f, mille-feuille (fr) f
• Galician: milfollas (gl) m
• Georgian: ფარსმანდუკი (parsmanduḳi)
• German: Schafgarbe (de) f
• Greek: αγριαψιθιά (el) (agriapsithiá)
• Halkomelem: xaweqá:l
• Hungarian: cickafark (hu)
• Irish: athair thalún f, luibh na ndaitheacha f
• Italian: millefoglio (it) m
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Latin: mīlifolium f
• Latvian: pelašķis
• Laz: სოხადია (soxadia)
• Lithuanian: kraujažolė
• Macedonian: ајдучка трева f (ajdučka treva)

• Navajo: hazéí yiltseeʼí
• Norman: hèrbe au tchèrpentchi f (Jersey), tchèrpentchiéthe f (Jersey)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: ryllik m

  Nynorsk: ryllik m

• Occitan: milafuèlhas m
• Old English: ġearwe f
• Old Saxon: garwa
• Persian: please add this translation if you can
• Polish: krwawnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: milefólio (pt) m
• Romanian: coada șoricelui
• Russian: тысячели́стник (ru) m (tysjačelístnik)
• Serbo-Croatian: hajdučka trava (sh) f, kunica (sh) f

  Cyrillic: сто̀лиснӣк m

  Latin: stòlisnīk (sh) m

• Slovak: please add this translation if you can
• Slovene: rman
• Sorbian:

  Lower Sorbian: rotwica f, źiwa garba f, kšawnik m

• Spanish: milenrama f, plumajillo m, perejil bravío
• Swedish: röllika (sv) c, rölleka (sv) c
• Turkish: civanperçemi (tr)
• Turkmen: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: milddail

Achillea millefolium — see common yarrow

Further reading

• Achillea on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• yarrow on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• yarrow at USDA Plants database

Etymology 2

a green woodpecker, Picus viridis

Origin unknown. Perhaps imitative of the bird's cry; compare yaffle, hewhole.

Noun

yarrow (plural yarrows)

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

Translations

Picus viridis — see green woodpecker

Further reading

• European green woodpecker on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Picus viridis on Wikispecies.Wikispecies

Anagrams

• arrowy