wormwood
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8.9
- noun
- /ˈwɜrmˌwʊd/
- Specialized
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ajenjo
- She brought us onions, garlic on wheat bread, bitter gentian, and wormwood.
- bitter as wormwood
This is why if you ever taste the anti parasitic herbs, black walnut and Wormwood, Wormwood tastes terrible.
- This is why if you ever taste the anti parasitic herbs, black walnut and Wormwood, Wormwood tastes terrible.
- OK, The first one is Wormwood extractor oil.
- He's on Wormwood or black walnut also put him on Wormwood.
Examples
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Bushes sprouted green leaves along the jagged drainages, the pungent scents of willow and wormwood wafting on the breeze.
Fiction book (1990) -
The deepening slant of sunlight cast long black shadows across the tundra, glinting silver from the new leaves on the sedges and wormwood.
Fiction book (1990) -
"I'll tell you everything," I said, and every word was like wormwood in my mouth.
Fiction book (1997) -
But her end is bitter as wormwood...
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This is 200-year-old wormwood absinthe.
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And what would you expect if you gulped down wormwood and couch-grass on an empty stomach?
Fiction book (1996) -
Around her thin waist was a wormwood belt, supporting the thief-skin bag that held her charms.
Fiction book (2001) -
Cold dust and a smell of wormwood penetrated from the fields through the cracks in the wagons.
Fiction book (2001) -
"Tilly, what made you put wormwood and catnip in the turkey stuffing?" demanded Ma.
Fiction book (1995) -
The herbalist recommended using wormwood to alleviate digestive issues.
Synonyms
A bitter herb with a strong smell used to make absinthe and for traditional medicine
A plant with a strong smell and bitter leaves used to make the drink absinthe
A plant used to make a medicine for malaria
A plant with scented leaves used to make medicine
A plant from southeastern Europe with silvery leaves used to flavor absinthe
A European plant with bitter leaves used to flavor spirits like absinthe
A plant like common wormwood with small aromatic, slightly bitter leaves used in some herbal remedies
A small wild plant with silvery leaves that grows in dry fields
A coastal plant with silvery leaves and a strong smell used in medicine and as a flavor
A plant that grows near the sea with silvery leaves and small yellow flowers
A small bush with feathery leaves and a strong scent used in gardens and old recipes
A small bush with a strong scent used in gardens and to flavor beer
A small aromatic plant with silvery green leaves and small brownish flowers that grows in dry northern areas
A plant with soft leaves and a strong smell that lives for many years and has small brownish flowers
A plant with greyish leaves that grows on sandy coasts of eastern North America and is grown in gardens
A bush with silver leaves that grows in dry areas and is often a weed
Compounds
- Specialized
A plant with greyish leaves that grows on sandy coasts of eastern North America and is grown in gardens
- Specialized
A small plant from northeastern North America with clusters of pink flowers tipped yellow
- Specialized
A plant with soft leaves and a strong smell that lives for many years and has small brownish flowers
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Wormwood gets its name from the plant's old use against stomach worms: it is literally made of worm and wood, showing people used it to 'drive out' parasites. That's why wormwood is known today as a bitter herb used in medicine and to flavor drinks like absinthe.