Word.ws English Dictionary

eyebright

eyebright noun: any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia, originally as used to treat eye infections.

eyebright: any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia, originally as used to treat eye infections
Image: Uoaei1, CC BY-SA 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons

Noun

eyebright (countable and uncountable, plural eyebrights)

  1. Any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia, originally as used to treat eye infections.
    • Paracelsus had been recommending the plant eyebright for bad eyes in the sixteenth century; it was still in widespread use in the eighteenth.1997, Roy Porter, The Greatest Benefit to Mankind, Folio Society, published 2016, page 273
    • 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.1999, Julia Leigh, The Hunter, Faber & Faber 2012, p. 91
    Synonyms:
    euphrasy

eyebright meaning in Tamil and Arabic

eyebright in Tamil

நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும்

eyebright in Arabic

any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia
عَرْقُون ʕarqūn

Synonyms of eyebright

Forms of eyebright

pluraleyebrights

Origin of eyebright

Compound of eye (noun) + bright (verb).

Words formed from eyebright

Questions about eyebright

What does eyebright mean?
Eyebright means any of the flowering plants of the genus Euphrasia, originally as used to treat eye infections.
What is eyebright in Tamil?
Eyebright in Tamil is நமது பூமியில் காணப்படும், தாவரங்களில் ஒன்றாகும். See Eyebright meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is eyebright?
Eyebright is a noun.
What is the plural of eyebright?
The plural of eyebright is eyebrights.

Words near eyebright in the dictionary

  1. eyebombing
  2. eyebombings
  3. eyebombs
  4. eyeborg
  5. eyeborgs
  6. eyebright
  7. eyebrights
  8. Eyebroughy
  9. eyebrow
  10. eyebrow flash
  11. eyebrow flashes

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: eyebright (page history and authors); eyebright (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Vealhurl-eyebright.wav.

Cite this entry: “eyebright.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/eyebright. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.