eyebright

English

From eye +‎ bright.

eyebright (countable and uncountable, plural eyebrights)

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.

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