Definitions
A hardy herb with feathery leaves and clusters of small flowers.
Word origin
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.
Used in a sentence
“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.”
“The Yarrow, where-with-all he stops the wound-made gore:”
““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.”
Source: Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0
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01“Feathery herb”6 letters
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