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field wormwood

field wormwood

9.9
A small wild plant with silvery leaves that grows in dry fields
  • noun
  • UK
translation icon : artemisa de campo
  • Field wormwood is commonly found in dry fields and waste grounds throughout Europe.

Examples

  • The silvery foliage of field wormwood makes it easy to recognize among wild plants.

  • Herb gatherers prized field wormwood for its medicinal uses.

  • Field wormwood is often found in dry, sandy soils across much of Europe.

  • I found some field wormwood growing in the garden.

  • The field wormwood has a strong aroma.

  • The distinctive silvery leaves of field wormwood help identify it among other plants.

  • Many herbalists use field wormwood for its traditional medicinal properties.

Synonyms

Artemisia campestris
vsfield wormwood
  • Specialized
9.9

A plant like common wormwood with small aromatic, slightly bitter leaves used in some herbal remedies

is described mainly by habitat in dry fields and waste grounds

Surface Forms

field wormwood singular
field wormwoods plural

Morphology

field + wormwood

The compound name directly combines 'field' (a plot of land) with 'wormwood' (an aromatic plant), so its meaning as a type or variety of wormwood associated with fields is immediately inferable. This type of noun-noun composition for plant names is cross-linguistically common and follows regular compositional patterns, making it transparent to a B1 learner who knows both constituents.

Etymology

Field wormwood is the name of a wild herb. The name joins field, meaning where it grows in dry open land, and wormwood, a very bitter herb long used as medicine, so the name means 'a bitter herb that grows in dry fields'.