Paracelsus had been recommending the plant eyebright for bad eyes in the sixteenth century; it was still in widespread use in the eighteenth.
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Eyebright
Synonyms for "eyebright" (4 found)
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3 entriesTranslations
30 translations across 23 languages.
Arabic
1 entries- عَرْقُون noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Bulgarian
1 entries- очанка noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Catalan
1 entries- eufràsia noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 小米草 noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Czech
1 entries- světlík noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Dutch
1 entries- ogentroost noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Finnish
1 entries- silmäruoho noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
French
1 entries- euphraise noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
German
1 entries- Augentrost noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Hungarian
1 entries- szemvidítófű noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Ido
1 entries- eufrazio noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Irish
4 entries- glanrosc noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
- líon radhairc noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
- rinn roisc noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
- roisnín noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Italian
1 entries- euphrasia noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Māori
2 entries- tūtaekiore noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
- tūtūmako noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Old English
1 entries- eagwyrt noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Polish
1 entries- świetlik noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Russian
1 entries- оча́нка noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Serbo-Croatian
2 entries- očànica noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
- vídac noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Slovak
1 entries- očianka noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Slovene
1 entries- smetlíka noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Spanish
1 entries- ojo brillante noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Swedish
1 entries- ögontröst noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Welsh
1 entries- effros noun (any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia)
Sample sentences
2 total sentences available.
He looks for eyebright, a tiny flowering herb he has seen before, and which he knows would make a good eye-wash: not to be found.
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