thousand-leaf
Word Rarity
Uncommon
Frequency: Zipf frequency 4.08 in modern English
19
Scrabble Score
12
Letters
3
Syllables
11
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Achillea millefolium or common yarrow, a flowering plant widespread in the temperate Northern Hemisphere, featuring finely divided leaves.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Nose-blood, Thousand-leaf, Yarrow, is so well known that I need not waste time to describe it."
- "Because of the many small parts of its leaves, yarrow is often known as milfoil, or thousand-leaves."
Usage
Inflected Forms
thousand-leaves (plural)