eyebright

English

common eyebright (Euphrasia rostkoviana) Mallnitz, Austria.

Etymology

From eye +‎ bright.

Noun

eyebright (countable and uncountable, plural eyebrights)

1. Any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia, originally as used to treat eye infections. [from 16th c.]
   • 1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 273:

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

   • 1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 91:

     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.

Synonyms

• euphrasy

Derived terms

• North Island eyebright (Euphrasia cuneata)

Translations

any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia

• Arabic: عَرْقُون m (ʕarqūn)
• Bulgarian: очанка f (očanka)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 小米草 (xiǎomǐcǎo)

• Czech: světlík (cs) m
• Dutch: ogentroost (nl)
• Finnish: silmäruoho (fi)
• French: euphraise (fr) f
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: Augentrost (de) m
• Hindi: please add this translation if you can
• Hungarian: szemvidítófű (hu)
• Ido: eufrazio (io)
• Irish: glanrosc m, líon radhairc m, rinn roisc f, roisnín m, roisnín radhairc m, soilse na súl f
• Italian: euphrasia f
• Kazakh: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: tūtaekiore, tūtūmako
• Old English: eagwyrt f
• Polish: świetlik (pl) m
• Russian: оча́нка (ru) f (očánka)
• Serbo-Croatian: vídac (sh) m, očànica (sh) f
• Slovak: očianka f
• Slovene: smetlíka f
• Spanish: ojo brillante m
• Swedish: ögontröst c
• Uzbek: please add this translation if you can

Further reading

• eyebright on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Euphrasia on Wikispecies.Wikispecies