yarrow

See also: Yarrow

English

a yarrow plant Achillea millefolium

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈjæɹəʊ/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈjæɹoʊ/
• Rhymes: -ærəʊ

Etymology 1

From Middle English yarowe, yarwe, from Old English ġearwe, from Proto-Germanic *garwō (“yarrow, yarrow-like herbs”), perhaps ultimately cognate to Proto-Germanic *gelwaz (“yellow”). 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.

Synonyms

• milfoil

Hyponyms

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

Translations

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

• Albanian: bari mijëfletësh
• Armenian: հազարատերևուկ (hazaraterewuk)
• Catalan: milfulles f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 蓍 (zh) (shī)

• Czech: řebříček
• Danish: røllike c
• Dutch: gerw (nl) m, f, duizendblad (nl) n
• Estonian: raudrohi
• Finnish: kärsämöt (fi)
• French: achillée (fr) f, mille-feuille (fr) f
• Galician: milfollas (gl) m
• German: Schafgarbe (de) f
• Greek: αγριαψιθιά (el) (agriapsithiá)
• Hungarian: cickafark (hu)
• Irish: athair thalún f, luibh na ndaitheacha f
• Italian: millefoglio (it) m
• Latvian: pelašķis
• Lithuanian: kraujažolė
• Macedonian: ајдучка трева f (ajdučka treva)

• Navajo: hazéí yiltseeʼí
• Norman: hèrbe au tchèrpentchi f (Jersey), tchèrpentchiéthe f (Jersey)
• Norwegian: ryllik c
• Occitan: milafuèlhas m
• Old English: ġearwe f
• Old Saxon: garwa
• Polish: krwawnik (pl) m
• Portuguese: milefólio m
• Romanian: coada șoricelui
• Russian: тысячели́стник (ru) m (tysjačelístnik)
• Serbo-Croatian:

  Cyrillic: сто̀лиснӣк m

  Latin: stòlisnīk (sh) m

• Slovene: rman
• Sorbian:

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

• Spanish: milenrama f, plumajillo m
• Swedish: röllika (sv) c, rölleka c
• Welsh: milddail

Further reading

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

Etymology 2

Wikispecies

Green woodpecker, Picus viridis

Noun

yarrow (plural yarrows)

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

Anagrams

• arrowy