Crossword clues for yarrow
yarrow
- Plant, milfoil
- Plant used in herbal medicine - a worry
- Medicinal plant
- Scottish river
- Garden flower
- Flowering plant
- Plant with feathery leaves
- Partner of Stookey and Travers
- Singing mate of Stookey and Travers
- Plant used in herbal medicine — a worry (anag)
- Peter who sings about Puff
- Peter who co-wrote "Puff, the Magic Dragon"
- Herb with white flowers
- Flowering herb also known as devil's nettle
- Fernlike plant
- A plant, the milfoil
- Peter of Peter, Paul & Mary
- Peter of Peter, Paul and Mary
- Ubiquitous strong-scented mat-forming Eurasian herb of wasteland, hedgerow or pasture having narrow serrate leaves and small usually white florets
- Widely naturalized in North America
- Peter of Peter, Paul & Mary
- Peter who wrote "Puff the Magic Dragon"
- Plant used by Indians to cure earaches
- Dainty garden flower
- River celebrated by Wordsworth
- Milfoil species
- Concern about consuming a flowering plant
- Numb doctor upset with Friday's case
- Flipping badger eating root of brassica plant
- Feel uneasy about importing a plant
- Raised concern about a plant
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Yarrow \Yar"row\, n. [OE. yarowe, yarwe, [yogh]arowe, AS. gearwe; akin to D. gerw, OHG. garwa, garawa, G. garbe, schafgarbe, and perhaps to E. yare.] (Bot.) An American and European composite plant ( Achillea Millefolium) with very finely dissected leaves and small white corymbed flowers. It has a strong, and somewhat aromatic, odor and taste, and is sometimes used in making beer, or is dried for smoking. Called also milfoil, and nosebleed.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
plant, also known as milfoil, Old English gearwe "yarrow," from Proto-Germanic *garwo (cognates: Middle Dutch garwe, Old High German garawa, German Garbe), perhaps from a source akin to the root of yellow (adj.).
Wiktionary
Etymology 1 n. any of several pungent Eurasian and North American herbs, of the genus ''Achillea'', used in traditional herbal medicine Etymology 2
n. (context UK English) The green woodpecker, ''Picus viridis''.
WordNet
n. ubiquitous strong-scented mat-forming Eurasian herb of wasteland, hedgerow or pasture having narrow serrate leaves and small usually white florets; widely naturalized in North America [syn: milfoil, Achillea millefolium]
Gazetteer
Wikipedia
Yarrow (Achillea millefolium) is a plant in the family Asteraceae.
Yarrow may also refer to:
- Yarrow, other species within the Achillea genus
Yarrow: An Autumn Tale is an urban fantasy novel by Charles de Lint, set in 1980s Ottawa. The plot concerns a fantasy writer who has a secret source of inspiration: when she dreams, she visits a world where magic is real. Unknown to her, a supernatural predator who feeds on dreams is feeding on her and destroying that world.
Category:1989 novels Category:Novels by Charles de Lint Category:Novels set in Ottawa Category:Ace Books books
Usage examples of "yarrow".
It had been mixed with yarrow, agrimony, willow, and elder for cleansing and magical protection.
Jigsaws, cards, roulette counters, poker chips, spillikins, marbles, yarrow stalks, dice, jacks, Trivial Pursuit wedges, bridge score-sheets, discarded Pictionary doodles, Scrabble tiles, bits of unidentifiable plastic and shards of bakelite, wood and metal formed a jumbled compost capable of engaging a dedicated housekeeper for several months of full-time sifting, cataloguing and sorting into the correct boxes.
Some day I should like to paint a bouquet of wildflowers, the kind she liked: gypsy rose and yarrow, and little pink bindweed, with a few blades of fine grass and a green oat stalk.
Hanging Garden got its name from the scarlet gilia, paintbrush and yarrow that had taken root and flourished in the turned soil of the hillside.
Others are scattered on the mounds and in the meads adjoining, where may be collected some heath still in bloom, prunella, hypericum, white yarrow, some heads of red clover, some beautiful buttercups, three bits of blue veronica, wild chamomile, tall yellowwood, pink centaury, succory, dock cress, daisies, fleabane, knapweed, and delicate blue harebells.
Sylvester, himself mounted on a neatish bay, and accompanied by two of his friends, took in the situation in one amused glance, and dealt with it in a way that showed considerable dexterity and an utter want of consideration for Lord Yarrow and Mr.
She climbed, with two of her maids, to the top of the hill above Yair, on the other side of the river, and she watched the roads down Ettrick and Yarrow.
Still moving carefully, she took several packets from her medicine bag and mixed up willow bark, yarrow, wood betony, and chamomile in various proportions.
Ged stayed with Yarrow and her brother, called Murre, who was between her and Vetch in age.
Lord Buchan, instructing him to pull birks on the Yarrow, broom on the Cowden-knowes, and not to neglect to admire the ruins of Drybrugh Abbey, Burns set out on a border tour, accompanied by Robert Ainslie, of Berrywell.
From a fencerow he gathered a wad of the feathery leaves of yarrow and tied it to his head with the stripped stem of the plant.
Others are scattered on the mounds and in the meads adjoining, where may be collected some heath still in bloom, prunella, hypericum, white yarrow, some heads of red clover, some beautiful buttercups, three bits of blue veronica, wild chamomile, tall yellowwood, pink centaury, succory, dock cress, daisies, fleabane, knapweed, and delicate blue harebells.
Australia--the Murray, the Yarrow, the Torrens, the Darling--all connected with each other, throw themselves into the ocean by well-frequented routes, and their mouths are ports of great activity.
Then she picked the many-petaled, daisy-like yarrow used for poultices and pain.
After the death of Mao Zedong and the gradual emergence of a market economy, UFOs, channelling and other examples of Western pseudoscience emerged, along with such ancient Chinese practices as ancestor worship, astrology and fortune telling - especially that version that involves throwing yarrow sticks and working through the hoary tetragrams of the I Ching.