fireweed

English

Etymology

From fire +‎ weed. The fire-part may be of same origin as eld-part in dialectal Norwegian Nynorsk eldmerke (“fireweed”).

Noun

fireweed (countable and uncountable, plural fireweeds)

1. A perennial herbaceous plant (Epilobium angustifolium or Chamaenerion angustifolium) in the willowherb family Onagraceae.

   Synonym: fireflower

2. Any of the flowering plants of the genus Erechtites.

Synonyms

• rosebay willowherb
• bombweed
• burnweed

Translations

Epilobium angustifolium

• Ahtna: tlʼacʼuskʼaʼ
• Alutiiq: cillqaq
• Catalan: cameneri m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 柳蘭 / 柳兰 (liǔlán)

• Danish: gederams c
• Dutch: wilgenroosje (nl) n
• French: épilobe à feuille étroite m
• Irish: lus tine m
• Japanese: 柳蘭 (yanagiran)
• Korean: 분홍바늘꽃 (bunhongbaneulkkot)
• Navajo: chʼilátah atsʼos
• Norwegian:

  Nynorsk: geitrams m, mjølke m, gople f

• Russian: иван-ча́й (ru) m (ivan-čáj)
• Sami:

  Skolt Sami: ǩiõǥǥnjuõll

• Swedish: mjölkört (sv) c, mjölke (sv) c, rallarros (sv) c
• Welsh: helyglys hardd m
• Yakut: кучу (kuču)

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