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Meaning of Eyebright | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B2

Definitions

Any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia, originally as used to treat eye infections.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

العربية عرقون ييبرايت
Čeština bartolomka okotěška Světlík
Deutsch Augentrost
Español ojo brillante
Suomi silmäruoho
Français euphraise
Gaeilge glanrosc líon radhairc rinn roisc roisnín roisnín radhairc soilse na súl
Italiano euphrasia
Nederlands ogentroost
Polski Świetlik
Русский оча́нка
Українська свічка

Examples

“Paracelsus had been recommending the plant eyebright for bad eyes in the sixteenth century; it was still in widespread use in the eighteenth.”
“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.”

CEFR level

B2
Upper Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B2 vocabulary — upper intermediate level.
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See also

Eyebroughy Eyebrow eyebrow flash eyebrow pencil eyebrow-raiser eyebrow-raising

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