common yarrow

English

a common yarrow, Achillea millefolium

Noun

common yarrow (uncountable)

1. Achillea millefolium, a flowering plant widespread in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, formerly and sometimes used to stanch the flow of blood.

Synonyms

• (Achillea millefolium): nosebleed plant, old man's pepper, devil's nettle, sanguinary, milfoil, soldier's woundwort, thousand-leaf, thousand-seal
• See also Thesaurus:yarrow

Translations

Achillea millefolium

• Bulgarian: бял равнец m (bjal ravnec)
• Catalan: milfulles f
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 歐蓍草／欧蓍草 (ōushīcǎo)

• Finnish: siankärsämö (fi)
• French: achillée millefeuille (fr) f, saigne-nez (fr) m (literally “nosebleed plant”)
• Hungarian: közönséges cickafark (hu)
• Japanese: セイヨウノコギリソウ (seiyō nokogirisō)
• Macedonian: а́јдучка тре́ва f (ájdučka tréva), ајду́чица f (ajdúčica), сто́лисник m (stólisnik)
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: ryllik m

• Polish: krwawnik pospolity (pl) m
• Spanish: milenrama f
• Swedish: rölleka (sv) c
• Turkish: civan perçemi

References

• “common yarrow”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• Achillea millefolium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Achillea millefolium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Achillea millefolium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons