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語源 1

From 中期英語 ȝarowe, yarowe, yarwe, from 古期英語 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.

名詞

yarrow (usually uncountable, plural yarrows)

1. Any of several pungent Eurasian and North American herbs, of the genus Achillea, used in traditional herbal medicine.
   • 1922, Eleanour Sinclair Rohde, The Old English Herbals‎, Longmans, Green and Co.:

     Yarrow is one of the aboriginal English plants, and from time immemorial it has been used in incantations and by witches. Country folk still regard it as one of our most valuable herbs, especially for rheumatism.

2. Common yarrow, Achillea millefolium, the type species of the genus.
   • 1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion, song 13 p. 218:

     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)
• sneezewort yarrow
• sweet yarrow (Achillea ageratum)

派生語

参照

Further reading

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

語源 2

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

名詞

yarrow (plural yarrows)

1. (UK) A green woodpecker, of species Picus viridis.

Further reading

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

アナグラム

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