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milfoiln. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French milfoil. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman and Old French milfoil (masculine) yarrow (13th cent.; Middle French millefueille (1539), Middle French, French millefeuille (1542), feminine, remodelled after feuille leaf) < classical Latin mīlifolium , mīllefolium (also mīllefolia , feminine) millefolium n. Compare Italian millefoglio (1563; 14th cent. as millefoglie , 14th–15th cent. as millefolio ), Portuguese milfolhas . Compare earlier millefolium n., and also cinquefoil n.The final syllable of the β. forms probably arises from the palatal l of the French etymon. 1. the world > plants > particular plants > plants perceived as weeds or harmful plants > weed > [noun] > yarrow a1300 in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker (1884) I. 555/9 (MED) Millefolium, i. milfoil. a1400 in T. Wright & J. O. Halliwell (1845) I. 55 Tak confery, marigolde, matfelon, mylfoyle. c1450 Med. Recipes (BL Add. 33996) in F. Heinrich (1896) 112 (MED) Take..millefoil & quintfoile. ?c1450 in (1896) 18 299 Take mylfoly & flour & comyn. 1567 J. Maplet f. 52 Mylfoile, of some Yarrow or Nosebleede, is a small and short set or shrub. 1597 W. Langham 397 Milfoile or Yarrowe: The decoction thereof doeth cure the bloudy flixe and all other laskes. 1615 R. Brathwait 88 The pinke, the plantaine, milfoile, euery one. 1706 J. Gardiner tr. R. Rapin i. 41 The Milfoil next her thousand Leaves displays. 1779 Nov. 344 Common Yarrow, or Milfoil. The roots of this creep abominably. 1877 W. Besant & J. Rice i The..yellow hawkweed, pink herbrobert, and the white milfoil. 1909 J. Macaulay (new ed.) vii. 131 One of these plants is a species of yarrow or millefoil. 1931 M. Grieve II. 864/1 Milfoil tea is held in much repute in the Orkneys for dispelling melancholy. 1980 M. Jackson in (1982) 83 Around the body wild cornflowers, mallow, milfoil, lilac and rare herbs. the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > achillea 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens i. ci. 143 Knights Milfoyle: souldiers Yerrow. 1686 J. Ray I. 347 Yellow Milfoil. 1789 W. Aiton III. 239 Achillea Santolina..Lavender-cotton-leav'd Milfoil... A. Ageratum..Sweet Milfoil, or Maudlin... A. tomentosa..Woolly Milfoil... A. pubescens..Downy Milfoil [etc.]. 1882 12 Aug. 134/2 Unlike most of the Milfoils, it is..a decidedly handsome and stately border plant. 1951 (Royal Hort. Soc.) I. 26/1 A. moschata. Musk Milfoil... Italy, &c... Rock-garden. 1972 O. Polunin 64 Yellow Milfoil... Has golden-yellow, flat-topped clusters of tiny flower-heads. the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > other aquatic plants the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > aquatic, marsh, and sea-shore plants > [noun] > bladder-wort 1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens i. ci. 142 Water Milfoyle or Yearrow. 1633 T. Johnson (new ed.) xxx. 827 (caption) Millefolium, sive maratriphyllon, flore & semine Ranunculi aquatici, Hepaticæ facie. Crow-foot, or water Milfoile. 1686 J. Ray II. 1101 Water-Violet, or Milfoil. 1760 J. Lee 319 Water Milfoil, Hottonia... Water Milfoil, Myriophyllum... Water Milfoil, Utricularia. 1863 R. C. A. Prior (at cited word) Hooded-Milfoil, Utricularia, L., Water Milfoil, Myriophyllum, L. 1892 S. Thomson (ed. 22) 205 In similar situations to the mare's-tail, we may find one or other of the water mill-foils, with their numerous fine leaves. 1952 G. F. Hervey & J. Hems iii. 29 Myriophyllum (Water Milfoil). This genus is probably the best known and most popular of all submerged plants. 1989 27 Nov. 18/1 Millfoil, a despised weed that is choking the lake, is being pulled from the water by giant weed-cutting machines and used as fertilizer. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022). <  n.a1300 |
