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Definition of milfoil

milfoil
Yarrow Yar"row, n. [OE. yarowe, yarwe, [yogh]arowe, AS. gearwe; akin to D. gerw, OHG. garwa, garawa, G. garbe, schafgarbe, and perhaps to E. yare.] (Bot.) An American and European composite plant (Achillea Millefolium) with very finely dissected leaves and small white corymbed flowers. It has a strong, and somewhat aromatic, odor and taste, and is sometimes used in making beer, or is dried for smoking. Called also milfoil, and nosebleed.
Milfoil
Milfoil Mil"foil, n. [F. mille-feuille, L. millefolium; mille thousand + folium leaf. See Foil a leaf.] (Bot.) A common composite herb (Achillea Millefolium) with white flowers and finely dissected leaves; yarrow. Water milfoil (Bot.), an aquatic herb with dissected leaves (Myriophyllum).

Meaning of milfoil from wikipedia

- or ****oils) The aquatic plants in the genus Myriophyllum (commonly referred to as water ****oil and other variations including the word ****oil) This...
- Myriophyllum (water ****oil) is a genus of about 69 species of freshwater aquatic plants, with a cosmopolitan distribution. The centre of diversity for...
- Myriophyllum ****atum (Eurasian water****oil or spiked water-****oil) is a submerged perennial aquatic plant which grows in still or slow-moving water...
- use in healing—particularly in the military—include bloodwort, knight's ****oil, staunchweed, and, from its use in the United States Civil War, soldier's...
- northern water ****oil (M. sibiri****). Whorled water ****oil is also easily confused with four types of invasive ****oils: Eurasian water ****oil (M. ****atum)...
- alterniflorum, known as alternate water-****oil or alternateflower water****oil, is a species of water-****oil. It is native to Europe and Asia, has been...
- is a species of water ****oil known by the common names shortspike water****oil, northern water****oil, and Siberian water-****oil. It is native to Russia...
- Gilbert ****oil, the ATF's head of security; despite others' fears, life there soon proves to be luxurious for him. Acting independently, ****oil plans...
- exhibits very clear conditions, it may be more prone to the spread of ****oil to deeper water. The average Secchi disk transparency from 2000 -2005 ranged...
- 80 km. Medicinal and other herbs, including wormwood, sage, thyme, and ****oil, grow in abundance. On the high and rounded ridges above Baška there is...