sea wormwood
- noun
- /siː ˈwɜːrˌmʊd/
- UK
- The salt marshes along the coast are dotted with sea wormwood, which blooms with small yellowish flower heads in summer.
Examples
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Gardeners sometimes plant sea wormwood for its silvery foliage and resilience to saline soil.
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The salt marshes along the coast are dotted with sea wormwood in the summer months.
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After the storm, a patch of sea wormwood thrived in the sandy dunes near the harbour.
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The sea wormwood grows abundantly along the coast.
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Have you seen a sea wormwood plant before?
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Gardeners sometimes plant sea wormwood for its aromatic leaves and ability to thrive in coastal conditions.
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After the storm, a patch of sea wormwood thrived in the sandy dunes near the harbour.
Synonyms
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8.9
A bitter plant with a strong smell used to make medicine and flavor drinks
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A group of scented shrubs and herbs like wormwood or tarragon
A coastal plant with silvery leaves and a strong smell used in medicine and as a flavor
A coastal plant with silvery leaves that grows in salty soil
Surface Forms
Morphology
The compound 'sea wormwood' is transparently compositional: 'sea' modifies 'wormwood' to indicate a variety of wormwood associated with the sea (coastal wormwood). This noun+noun naming pattern is a standard and cross-linguistically common way to form plant names, so a B1 learner who knows 'sea' and 'wormwood' can infer the meaning.
Etymology
Sea wormwood gets its name from a simple picture: the bitter plant wormwood growing by the sea. So the name just means a kind of wormwood that lives on the coast.