St John's wort

English

Saint John's wort flowers

St John's wort (usually uncountable, plural St John's worts)

Any of several plants, of the genus Hypericum, especially Hypericum perforatum, that have yellow flowers and traditionally ward off evil.
- [1612, Michael Drayton, Poly-Olbion song 13 p. 218:
  that hearbe we call S. John]
- 2013 March 1, David S. Senchina, “Athletics and Herbal Supplements”, in American Scientist‎, volume 101, number 2, page 134:
  Athletes' use of herbal supplements has skyrocketed in the past two decades. At the top of the list of popular herbs are echinacea and ginseng, whereas garlic, St. John's wort, soybean, ephedra and others are also surging in popularity or have been historically prevalent.
(uncountable) The plant prepared as a medication.

any plant of the genus Hypericum

Albanian: makth i egër m, makth (sq) m
Arabic: حَشِيشَة الْقَلْب‎ f (ḥašīša al-qalb), دَاذِيّ‎ m (dāḏiyy)
Catalan: pericó (ca) m, herba de Sant Joan f
Czech: třezalka f
Dutch: sint-janskruid (nl) n
Erzya: урмавкс (urmavks)
Faroese: pirikum n
Finnish: kuisma (fi) (Hypericum); mäkikuisma (fi) (Hypericum perforatum)
French: millepertuis (fr) m
German: Johanniskraut n
Greek: βάλσαμο (el) n (válsamo)
Ancient: ὑπέρεικος f (hupéreikos), ἄσκυρον n (áskuron), ἀνδρόσαιμον n (andrósaimon)
Hungarian: orbáncfű (hu)
Irish: luibh Eoin Baiste f
Italian: iperico m
Japanese: 西洋弟切草 (せいようおとぎりそう, seiyō otogirisō), セント・ジョーンズ・ワート (sento Jōnzu wāto)
Korean: 고추나물 (gochunamul)
Latin: ascyron n
Macedonian: кантарио́н m (kantarión), тантур m (tantur)
Norwegian: johannesurt m
Polish: dziurawiec (pl) m
Portuguese: hipericão (pt) m, erva-de-são-joão (pt) f
Romanian: sunătoare (ro) f
Russian: зверобо́й (ru) m (zverobój)
Scottish Gaelic: lus Chaluim Chille m
Serbo-Croatian: gospina trava f, pljȕskavica (sh) f
Spanish: hipérico (es) m, hierba de San Juan (es) f
Swedish: johannesört (sv)
Ukrainian: звіробі́й m (zvirobíj)
Welsh: eurinllys m or f