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milfoil

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.42 in modern English

Syllables
mil-foil
IPA
12
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
5
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

Common yarrow, Achillea millefolium.

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Any of several similar pungent Eurasian herbs, of the genus Achillea

Countable; Uncountable

noun

Any plants of the genus Myriophyllum; water milfoil.

Countable; Uncountable

Etymology

From Old French milfoil (modern French mille-feuille), from Latin millefolium, from mīlle + folium. Doublet of mille-feuille.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Usage

Inflected Forms

milfoils (plural)

Synonyms

common yarrow yarrow watermilfoil water milfoil achillea millefolium

Questions

What does milfoil mean?
Common yarrow, Achillea millefolium.
Where does milfoil come from?
It is traced to Old French.

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