yarrow

English

Wikipedia

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. 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
• French: achillée (fr) f, mille-feuille (fr) f
• Galician: milfollas (gl) m
• German: Schafgarbe (de) f
• Greek: αγριαψιθιά (el) ‎(agriapsithiá)
• Hungarian: cickafark (hu)
• Italian: millefoglio m
• Norman: hèrbe au tchèrpentchi f, tchèrpentchiéthe f
• Latvian: pelašķis
• Lithuanian: kraujažolė

• Macedonian: ајдучка трева f ‎(ajdučka treva)
• Navajo: hazéí yiltseeʼí
• 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: столисник m

  Latin: stolisnik (sh) m

• Sorbian:

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

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

External links

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

Etymology 2

Wikipedia

Wikispecies

Green woodpecker, Picus viridis

Noun

yarrow ‎(plural yarrows)

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

Anagrams

• arrowy