NOUN
- ubiquitous strong-scented mat-forming Eurasian herb of wasteland, hedgerow or pasture having narrow serrate leaves and small usually white florets; widely naturalized in North America
How To Use milfoil In A Sentence
- Other important plant species in the freshwater habitats include pondweed (Potamogeton crispus), water milfoil (Myriophyllum spicatum), tape-grass (Ottelia alismoides), and buckbean (Nymphoides peltata). Yellow Sea saline meadow
- Lakes and ponds have buttonbush, pickerel weed, bulltongue arrowhead, horned bladderwort, water milfoil, and water-shield growing in the water.
- That's the thinking behind forthcoming plans to research and manage infestations of the harmful invasive plant called milfoil in Maine's inland waters, including Messalonskee Lake in Oakland. Morning Sentinel News
- If the vegetation is primarily milfoil, musk grass, pondweed, or naiad, these stocking rates are recommended.
- There are also lovely mosses, liverworts, milfoil duckweed and pondweed.
- Grass, milfoil, water crowfoot, hornwort, starwort, horsetail, and a dozen other delicate plants, form one tangled forest, denser than those of the Amazon, and more densely peopled likewise. Prose Idylls, New and Old
- In half of the sites studied, algae, mosses and plants such as water milfoil that had previously been absent were becoming abundant.
- Then, gardens in England were enriched with many species not previously known, among them plants which soon became very popular, like several campanulas, carnations, and milfoils.
- Bait and switch for bass works best in moderately thick cover: Beds of lily pads, scattered logs or standing timber, or patches of dense milfoil or hydrilla mixed with small pockets of open water are all good examples. Bait and Switch
- In quiet fresh-water streams, and especially in ponds, there are _Myriophyllums_ (or water-milfoil), _Ceratophyllums_ (or hornwort), the aquatic St. Nicholas Magazine for Boys and Girls, Vol. 5, July 1878, No. 9
