Yarrow vs Sanguinary - What's the difference?
yarrow | sanguinary |
any of several pungent Eurasian and North American herbs, of the genus Achillea , used in traditional herbal medicine
(label) Attended with bloodshed.
* 1625 , , "Unity in Religion"
* 1887 , :
(label) Eager to shed blood; bloodthirsty.
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* 1877 , Samuel Green, The Life of Mahomet: Founder of the Religion of Islamism and of the Empire of the Saracens with Notices of the History of Islamism and of Arabia ,
(label) Consisting of, covered with, or similar in appearance to blood.
* 1913 , :
A bloodthirsty person.
The plant yarrow, or herba sanguinaria .
As nouns the difference between yarrow and sanguinary
is that yarrow is any of several pungent eurasian and north american herbs, of the genus achillea , used in traditional herbal medicine or yarrow can be (uk) the green woodpecker, picus viridis while sanguinary is a bloodthirsty person.As a adjective sanguinary is
(label) attended with bloodshed.yarrow
English
(wikipedia yarrow)Etymology 1
From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .Noun
(en-noun)Synonyms
* milfoilHyponyms
* Alps yarrow, * Chinese yarrow, * common yarrow, Achillea millefolium * Egyptian yarrow, * fernleaf yarrow, * Ligurian yarrow, * noble yarrow, * Siberian yarrow,External links
* (Achillea) *Etymology 2
(Picus viridis) (Picus viridis)Anagrams
*sanguinary
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Adjective
(en adjective)(Google preview):
- We may not propagate religion by wars, or by sanguinary persecutions to force consciences.
- " every one of which took its rise from some noble family that succeeded in grasping the purple after a sanguinary struggle."
- Passion makes us brutal and sanguinary .
p. 126:
- "The defence set up for Mahomet is equally availing for every sanguinary and revengeful tyrant; "
- Here is the premeditation, the thrill, the strain of accumulating victory or disaster—and no smashed nor sanguinary bodies , that we who are old enough to remember a real modern war know to be the reality of belligerence.
