willowherb en · NOUN
Pronunciation
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Etymology
From willow + herb.
Meanings
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Any of several flowering plants, mostly in the genus Epilobium of the family Onagraceae.
Never had they noticed the roses so vivid, the willow-herb so riotous, the meadow-sweet so odorous and pervading.
1908 October, Kenneth Grahame, “The Piper at the Gates”, in The Wind in the Willows, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, →OCLC, page 153:And willows, willow-herb, and grass, / And meadowsweet, and haycocks dry, / No whit less still and lonely fair / Than the high cloudlets in the sky.
1917, Edward Thomas, “Adlestrop”, in Poems, London: Selwyn & Blount, page 40:Their flowers range from the rather formal blossoming of outer London to the wilder flowering of the country, where willow-herb and broom, traveller's joy and campion, go rioting over the chalky banks of the Metropolitan Line.
1950 July, “Traveller's Joy”, in Railway Magazine, page ii (advertisement):
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| willowherbs | Number=Plur | lexicographic | |
| willow herb | alternative | lexicographic |
Deriveds
spiked willowherb · rosebay willowherb · hairy willowherb · golden willowherb · marsh willowherb · milk willowherb · bog willowherb · swamp willowherb · great willowherb · yellow willow herb · night willowherb · giant willowherb
Translations (30)
tt кырлыган (Epilobium) · kk күреңот (Epilobium) · cv хӗрлӗхен курӑкӗ (Epilobium) · mhr вуйдеҥге (Epilobium) · mi pāpapa-kōura (Epilobium) · tr yakıotu (Epilobium) · ru иван-ча́й (Epilobium) · kpv воййыв (Epilobium) · ba боланут (Epilobium) · nn mjølke (Epilobium) · ru кипре́й (Epilobium) · bg върбовка (Epilobium) · cy helyglys (Epilobium) · cs vrbovka (Epilobium) · cv хӗлхен (Epilobium) · pl wierzbownica (Epilobium) · mrj ӹрлӹхӓн шуды (Epilobium) · ca epilobi (Epilobium) · izh sittakukka (Epilobium) · mi pāpapakōura (Epilobium) · be скрыпень (Epilobium) · de Weidenröschen (Epilobium) · fo dúnurt (Epilobium) · uk зніт (Epilobium) · bg кипрей (Epilobium) · ro pufuliță (Epilobium) · mi papakōura (Epilobium) · fr épilobe (Epilobium) · nv chʼilátah atsʼos (Epilobium) · fi horsma (Epilobium)