how to pronounce yarrow

/ˈjæɹəʊ/

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yarrow is pronounced in three syllables

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An example use of yarrow in a speech by a native speaker of british english:

“… peppermint yarrow and fennel I just …”

meanings of yarrow

name:

A hamlet in Sedgemoor district, Somerset, England.
An unincorporated community in Missouri, United States.
A surname.
A small community in British Columbia, Canada.
A river in Lancashire, England, which flows into the River Douglas.
A river, named Yarrow Water, in Scottish Borders council area, Scotland.
A hamlet and parish in the Yarrow Valley, Scottish Borders council area (OS grid ref NT3527).

noun:

The green woodpecker, Picus viridis.
Any of several pungent Eurasian and North American herbs, of the genus Achillea, used in traditional herbal medicine.
Common yarrow, Achillea millefolium, the type species of the genus.

yarrow frequency in english - C2+ level of CEFR

the word yarrow occurs in english on average 1.3 times per one million words; this frequency warrants it to be in the study list for C2+ level of language mastery according to CEFR, the Common European Framework of Reference.

topics yarrow can be related to

it is hard to perfectly classify words into specific topics since each word can have many context of its use, but our machine-learning models believe that yarrow can be often used in the following areas:

1) life, nature, and living environment;