milfoil
Americannoun
noun
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another name for yarrow
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See water milfoil
Etymology
Origin of milfoil
1250–1300; Middle English < Old French < Latin mīlifolium, equivalent to mīli-, combining form of mille thousand + folium leaf
Example Sentences
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A patch of milfoil sprouting in 18 feet of water.
From Los Angeles Times • May 9, 2022
They gathered mostly to keep company among the ducks and the milfoil harvesters ever busy fighting the lake’s fate as a gooey bog.
From Seattle Times • Dec. 13, 2020
About 5 percent of the state’s lakes are infested with species such as zebra mussels, Eurasian milfoil and starry stonewort.
From Washington Times • Jul. 9, 2017
Stringent efforts are maintained to prevent zebra mussels, milfoil and other invasive species from gaining a toehold.
From New York Times • May 29, 2016
It was only a big dock: but you know the dragon-fly had never seen any but little water-trees; starwort, and milfoil, and water-crowfoot, and such like; so it did look very big to him.
From The Water-Babies by Kingsley, Charles
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