yarrowとは

意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /ˈjæɹəʊ/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈjɛɹoʊ/
• 韻: -æɹəʊ

語源 1

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

名詞

yarrow (usually uncountable, 複数形 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.

同意語

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

下位語

• 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

Further reading

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

語源 2

a green woodpecker, Picus viridis

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

名詞

yarrow (複数形 yarrows)

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