Definition of Common wormwood

1. Noun. Aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe.

Exact synonyms: Absinthe, Artemisia Absinthium, Lad's Love, Old Man
Substance meronyms: Absinth, Absinthe
Group relationships: Genus Artemisia
Generic synonyms: Wormwood

Lexicographical Neighbors of Common Wormwood

common vole
common voles
common wallaby
common wart
common wasp
common water snake
common watercress
common wheat
common white dogwood
common whitefish
common winterberry holly
common wolffia
common wood sorrel
common woodpigeon
common woodpigeons
common wormwood (current term)
common year
common years
common yellowthroat
common yellowwood
common zebra
commonable
commonage
commonages
commonalities
commonality
commonalties
commonalty
commoned
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Literary usage of Common wormwood

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Saturday Magazine (1841)
"COMMON Wormwood, (Artemisia absinthium), is a perennial herb, ... The root of the common wormwood is branched and woody; the stems rise to two or three feet ..."

2. The Family Herbal: Or, An Account of All Those English Plants, which are by John Hill (1812)
"The flowers stand in loose spikes at the tops of the stalks ; they are little and brown ; and they very much resemble those of the common wormwood, ..."

3. The Field and Garden Vegetables of America: Containing Full Descriptions of by Fearing Burr (1874)
"The root is seldom used, but the leaves and young branches are employed in the same manner and for the same purposes as those of the common wormwood. ..."

4. Rambles in search of wild flowers, and how to distinguish them by Margaret Plues (1879)
"The common Wormwood (A. absinthium) grows about villages in Yorkshire, ... It closely resembles the common Wormwood. I found the Sea Wormwood (A. maritima), ..."

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