agrimony
/ˈæɡ.ɹɪˌmoʊ.ni/noun
agrimony is a noun meaning “Any of several perennial herbaceous plants, of the genus Agrimonia, that have spikes of yellow flowers” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled A-G-R-I-M-O-N-Y and has 4 syllables, and it appears about once in every 63 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data). The plural of agrimony is agrimonies.
What does agrimony mean?
noun
- 1
Any of several perennial herbaceous plants, of the genus Agrimonia, that have spikes of yellow flowers.
- 2
Any of several not closely related plants of a similar appearance.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How do you pronounce agrimony?
- UK /ˈæɡ.ɹɪ.mən.i/
- US /ˈæɡ.ɹɪˌmoʊ.ni/
Agrimony has 4 syllables (counted from the pronunciation).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Recordings: LL-Q1860_(eng)-Vealhurl-agrimony.wav, Wikimedia Commons (author and licence on each file's page).
Forms of agrimony
- agrimonies plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is agrimony?
Agrimony appears about once in every 63 million words in written English, the 249,463rd most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Agrimony in Spanish, French, German and Portuguese
In the sense plant of the genus Agrimonia:
| Language | Words |
|---|---|
| French | aigremoine |
| German | Odermennig |
| Portuguese | agrimónia, agrimônia |
| Spanish | agrimonia |
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract). Translations are Wiktionary's, by sense; a linked word has its own PlainSpell page.
Where does agrimony come from?
From Middle English egremoyne, from a conflation of Old English agrimonia and Middle French agremoine (from Old French agremoine, variant of aegremone), both from Late Latin agrimōnia, metathesized from Latin argemōnia (“a kind of poppy”) (probably by association with ager, agri- (“field”)), from Ancient Greek ἀργεμώνη (argemṓnē, “Papaver argemone, prickly poppy”), probably from ἄργεμον (árgemon, “leucoma”), from ἀργός (argós, “white”).
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).