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eyebright en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Etymology

Compound of eye (noun) + bright (verb).

Meanings

1. (countable, uncountable) Any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia, originally as used to treat eye infections.
   • Paracelsus had been recommending the plant eyebright for bad eyes in the sixteenth century; it was still in widespread use in the eighteenth. 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 273:
   • He looks for eyebright, a tiny flowering herb he has seen before, and which he knows would make a good eye-wash: not to be found. 1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 91

Forms

Deriveds

North Island eyebright

Synonyms

euphrasy

Translations (30)

cy effros (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · sl smetlíka (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · ru оча́нка (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · ang eagwyrt (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · fi silmäruoho (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · sk očianka (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · io eufrazio (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · it euphrasia (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · ga soilse na súl (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · mi tūtaekiore (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · bg очанка (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · cmn 小米草 (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · ga glanrosc (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · pl świetlik (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · sv ögontröst (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · ca eufràsia (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · mi tūtūmako (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · es ojo brillante (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · sh očànica (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · ar عَرْقُون (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · ga rinn roisc (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · sh vídac (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · ga líon radhairc (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · hu szemvidítófű (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · de Augentrost (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · nl ogentroost (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · cs světlík (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · fr euphraise (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · ga roisnín radhairc (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia) · ga roisnín (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)