English Explanatory Dictionary

yarrow

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  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.
noun
  1. A green woodpecker, of species Picus viridis.
name
  1. A river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the River Douglas.
  2. A river, named Yarrow Water, in Scottish Borders council area, Scotland.
  3. A hamlet and parish in the Yarrow Valley, Scottish Borders council area (OS grid ref NT3527).
  4. A hamlet in Mark parish, Somerset, England, previously in Sedgemoor district (OS grid ref ST3847).
  5. A small community in British Columbia, Canada.
  6. An unincorporated community in Missouri, United States.
  7. A locality in the Queanbeyan-Palerang council area, south eastern New South Wales, Australia.
  8. A surname.

Pronunciation

/ˈjæɹəʊ/ LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-yarrow.wav /ˈjæɹoʊ/ /ˈjɛ(ə)ɹoʊ/

Word forms

yarrow yarrows

Etymology

From Middle English ȝarowe, yarowe, yarwe, from Old English ġearwe, from Proto-West Germanic *garwā (“yarrow, yarrow-like herbs”), perhaps derived from *garu (“prepared, ready (of food)”), as the plant was used medicinally for digestion. Cognate with Dutch gerw (“yarrow”) and German (Schaf-)garbe.

Synonyms

milfoil achillea yarrow bloodwort nosebleed plant old man's pepper European green woodpecker hewhole hickwall green woodpecker whetile whitwall yaffingale yaffle yaffler yockel devil's nettle sanguinary soldier's woundwort thousand-leaf

Derived words

golden yarrow yellow yarrow

Translations

Albanian: bari mijëfletësh Arabic: قَيْصُوم Armenian: հազարատերևուկ Armenian: բացմենակ Bulgarian: бял равнец Catalan: milfulles Chinese Mandarin: 蓍 Czech: řebříček Danish: røllike Dutch: duizendblad Dutch: gerw Estonian: raudrohi Finnish: kärsämö French: achillée French: mille-feuille Galician: milfollas Georgian: ფარსმანდუკი German: Schafgarbe Greek: αγριαψιθιά Halkomelem: xaweqá:l Hungarian: cickafark Irish: athair thalún Irish: luibh na ndaitheacha Italian: millefoglio Latin: mīlifolium Latvian: pelašķis Laz: სოხადია Lithuanian: kraujažolė Macedonian: а́јдучка тре́ва Macedonian: ајду́чица Macedonian: сто́лисник Middle English: yarwe Navajo: hazéí yiltseeʼí Norman: hèrbe au tchèrpentchi Norman: tchèrpentchiéthe Norwegian Bokmål: ryllik Norwegian Nynorsk: ryllik Occitan: milafuèlhas Old English: ġearwe Old Saxon: garwa Polish: krwawnik Portuguese: milefólio Romanian: coada șoricelului Russian: тысячели́стник Serbo-Croatian: hajdučka trava Serbo-Croatian: kunica Serbo-Croatian: сто̀лиснӣк Serbo-Croatian: stòlisnīk Slovene: rman Lower Sorbian: rotwica Lower Sorbian: źiwa garba Lower Sorbian: kšawnik
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