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milfoil|ˈmɪlfɔɪl|
Forms: 4 mille-, mylfoly, 5 myllefoyle, millefoil, melle-, myllyfoly, 5–6 mylfoile, 6 mylfoyle, myllefoly, 6–7 milfoile, 7 millefoil(e, 3, 7– milfoil.
[ME. milfoil, a. OF. milfoil masc. (also millefueille, mod.F. mille-feuille fem., after feuille leaf):—L. mīlifolium, millefolium, f. mīle, mille thousand + folium leaf. The name alludes to the many finely-divided leaves of the plant. Cf. the synonymous Gr. χιλιόϕυλλος (f. χίλιοι thousand + ϕύλλον leaf), It. millefoglio, millefoglie, Pg. millfolhas.]
1. The common yarrow, Achillea Millefolium.
[c1000Sax. Leechd. I. 194 Wið ᵹeswell, ᵹenim þas ylcan wyrte myllefolium.] c1265Voc. Plants in Wr.-Wülcker 555/9 Millefolium, Milfoil. 14..in Rel. Ant. I. 55 Tak confery, marigolde, matfelon, mylfoyle. 14..Stockh. Med. MS. i. 173 in Anglia XVIII. 299 Take mylfoly & flour & comyn. c1450ME. Med. Bk. (Heinrich) 112 Take betoyne, verueyne millefoil, & quintfoile, ana, wasshe hem, & grynde hem in a morter. 1567J. Maplet Gr. Forest 52 Mylfoile, of some Yarrow or Nosebleede, is a small and short set or shrub. 1579Langham Gard. Health (1633) 397 Milfoile or yarrow: The decoction thereof doth cure the bloudy flixe and all other lasks. 1615R. Brathwait Strappado (1878) 88 The pinke, the plantaine, milfoile, euery one. 1728J. Gardiner tr. Rapin On Gardens 41 The Milfoil next her thousand Leaves displays. 1877Besant & Rice Harp & Cr. i, The..yellow hawkweed, pink herbrobert, and the white milfoil.
b. The genus Achillea.
1789W. Aiton Hortus Kewensis III. 239 Achillea Santolina..Lavender-cotton-leav'd Milfoil. Ibid., A. Ageratum..Sweet Milfoil, or Maudlin. Ibid., A. tomentosa..Woolly Milfoil... A. pubescens..Downy Milfoil [etc.]. 1882Garden 12 Aug. 134/2 Unlike most of the Milfoils, it is..a decidedly handsome and stately border plant.
2. In the names of plants of other genera, as hooded (water) milfoil, the genus Utricularia; knight's milfoil, Stratiotes aloides; water milfoil, (a) the genus Myriophyllum; (b) the water violet, Hottonia palustris.
1578Lyte Dodoens i. ci. 142 Water Milfoyle or Yearrow. Ibid. 143 Knights Milfoyle: souldiers Yerrow. 1597Gerarde Herbal ii. cclxxxvi. 678 Water Milfoile or water Yarrow hath long and large leaues [etc.]. 1741Compl. Fam.-Piece ii. iii. 380 Likewise these in the Water-tubs,..the Water Violet, and Water Milfoil, with some others. 1760J. Lee Introd. Bot. App. 319 Milfoil, Water, Hottonia. Ibid., Milfoil, Water, Myriophyllum. Ibid., Milfoil, Water, Utricularia. 1854S. Thomson Wild Fl. iii. (ed. 4) 205 We may find one or other of the water mill-foils. 1863Prior Brit. Plants s.v., Hooded-Milfoil, Utricularia, L., Water Milfoil, Myriophyllum, L. 1866Treas. Bot. s.v., Water Milfoil, Myriophyllum; also Hottonia palustris. |