: a widely naturalized strong-scented Eurasian composite herb (Achillea millefolium) with finely dissected leaves and small usually white corymbose flowers
also: any of several congeneric plants
Example Sentences
Recent Examples on the WebOur intent with Susurrus was always to always treat the fruit as a compliment to the botanical component of the beer, never drowning or dominating the delicate yarrow and sumac qualities.Hartford Courant, 17 June 2022 Coulter also likes mixing swaths of ornamental grass, like blue fescue, with native Salvia, which adds height. Harnish, meanwhile, likes to mix perennial grass Berkeley sedge with ‘Munstead’ English lavender and common yarrow. Deanna Kizis, Sunset Magazine, 20 Jan. 2022 There are blue sage and yarrow and mallow and tobacco and oregano and marjoram. Lisa Boone, Los Angeles Times, 31 Mar. 2021 This one is made with a combination of cleansing white sage, calming lavender, loving rose, and healing rose-hips and yarrow. Kelly Allen, House Beautiful, 23 Mar. 2021 Some perennials, such a coneflower and yarrow, revel in bright sun from morning until night while others, such as astilbe and old-fashioned bleeding heart, do best in afternoon shade. Megan Hughes, Better Homes & Gardens, 18 June 2020 Take yarrow, for example, a plant that the Greek hero Achilles is said to have used to treat his soldiers’ wounds during the battle of Troy.National Geographic, 18 May 2020 Cedar Rose Bulltail survived by selling handmade beadwork at indigenous art fairs, cooking fry bread for neighbors and making yarrow balm in the kitchen of her tiny rural home with no running water on the Crow Reservation. Simon Romero, New York Times, 11 May 2020 Sunflower, yarrow, billy balls, and witch hazel are also sure to put a smile on your Valentine’s face. Heather Arndt Anderson, Sunset Magazine, 12 Feb. 2020 See More
Word History
Etymology
Middle English yarowe, from Old English gearwe; akin to Old High German garwa yarrow
First Known Use
before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above
Time Traveler
The first known use of yarrow was before the 12th century