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Yarrow vs Tansy - What's the difference?

yarrow | tansy |

As nouns the difference between yarrow and tansy

is that yarrow is any of several pungent Eurasian and North American herbs, of the genus Achillea, used in traditional herbal medicine while tansy is a herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum, especially species: Tanacetum vulgare.

As a proper noun Tansy is

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yarrow

English

(wikipedia yarrow)

Etymology 1

From (etyl) (m), (m), from (etyl) .

Noun

(en-noun)
  • any of several pungent Eurasian and North American herbs, of the genus Achillea , used in traditional herbal medicine
    • Synonyms
    * milfoil
    Hyponyms
    * 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)

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • (UK) The green woodpecker, Picus viridis .

    • Anagrams

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    tansy

    English

    (wikipedia tansy)

    Noun

  • A herbaceous plant with yellow flowers, of the genus Tanacetum , especially .
  • * 1913 , DH Lawrence, Sons and Lovers , Penguin 2006, p. 365:
    • The sunny afternoon was there, like another land. By the path grew tansy and little trees.
  • (uncountable, obsolete) A dish common in the seventeenth century, made of eggs, sugar, rose water, cream, and the juice of herbs (including tansy), baked with butter in a shallow dish.
    • (Pepys)

    Derived terms

    * double tansy * tansy mustard

    See also

    * pennyroyal * savin

    Anagrams

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