Euphrasy

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Noun
  1. 1
    The eyebright, Euphrasia officinalis.

    "In these delightful moments, released from the burden of her tyrant malady, her eyes seem to have been touched with the herb euphrasy, and she has the gift, denied to the rest of her generation, of seeing nature and describing what she sees."

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"In these delightful moments, released from the burden of her tyrant malady, her eyes seem to have been touched with the herb euphrasy, and she has the gift, denied to the rest of her generation, of seeing nature and describing what she sees."

Etymology

From Ancient Greek εὐφρασία (euphrasía, “good cheer”), from εὐφραίνω (euphraínō), from φρήν (phrḗn).

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