Wormwood
noun
A plant that has a bitter taste and is used in medicines.
The medicinal properties of wormwood have been known for centuries.
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Academic
noun
A symbol of bitterness or sadness.
His betrayal was a wormwood in her heart.
Often appears as...
- taste of wormwood
- wormwood in heart
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Disapproving
Literary
noun
A plant that has a bitter taste and is used in medicines.
The medicinal properties of wormwood have been known for centuries.
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A symbol of bitterness or sadness.
His betrayal was a wormwood in her heart.
Often appears as...
- taste of wormwood
- wormwood in heart
Usage tips
Disapproving
Literary
Definition 1 of 2
Pro Tip 1/3Medicinal Usage
Wormwood is known for its use in medicine, especially in digestive aids.
Herbalists often include wormwood in tinctures for stomach ailments.
Pro Tip 2/3Bitter Flavor
Wormwood is very bitter, so the term can describe anything with a similar, strong bitterness.
The wormwood in the tea gave it a powerful kick.
Pro Tip 3/3Absinthe Ingredient
Wormwood is famously used in absinthe, an alcoholic beverage with a rich cultural history.
The green fairy, or absinthe, gets its distinct flavor from wormwood.
Pro Tip 1/3Medicinal Usage
Wormwood is known for its use in medicine, especially in digestive aids.
Herbalists often include wormwood in tinctures for stomach ailments.
Pro Tip 2/3Bitter Flavor
Wormwood is very bitter, so the term can describe anything with a similar, strong bitterness.
The wormwood in the tea gave it a powerful kick.
Pro Tip 3/3Absinthe Ingredient
Wormwood is famously used in absinthe, an alcoholic beverage with a rich cultural history.
The green fairy, or absinthe, gets its distinct flavor from wormwood.
Pro Tip 1/3Medicinal Usage
Wormwood is known for its use in medicine, especially in digestive aids.
Herbalists often include wormwood in tinctures for stomach ailments.
Pro Tip 2/3Bitter Flavor
Wormwood is very bitter, so the term can describe anything with a similar, strong bitterness.
The wormwood in the tea gave it a powerful kick.
Pro Tip 3/3Absinthe Ingredient
Wormwood is famously used in absinthe, an alcoholic beverage with a rich cultural history.
The green fairy, or absinthe, gets its distinct flavor from wormwood.
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kind of dry and this helps to keep them supple and soft it's very important to be knowledgeable about the things that grow in our area here because medicine is expensive this is proactive health care I got some wormwood that I picked
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Hire the hackers! -...
fraud and he will be released from Wormwood Scrubs jail in London in 2012 from matrix zero zero 1 matrix null null ants who was an administrator of dark market born in southern Germany to a state and well-respected middle-class family
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Alaskan Medicine -...
kind of dry and this helps to keep them supple and soft it's very important to be knowledgeable about the things that grow in our area here because medicine is expensive this is proactive health care I got some wormwood that I picked
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Isabella Bird
English Explorer
The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil a desert. It is a dead flat of uninhabited earth; orange colocynth balls, a little wormwood, and some alkaline plants which camels eat, being its chief products. After the inundations, reedy grass grows in the hollows.
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Stanley Elkin
American Novelist
What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood.
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Phyllis McGinley
American Author
Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.
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Isabella Bird
English Explorer
The 'Desert' sweeps up to the walls of Baghdad, but it is a misnomer to call the vast level of rich, stoneless, alluvial soil a desert. It is a dead flat of uninhabited earth; orange colocynth balls, a little wormwood, and some alkaline plants which camels eat, being its chief products. After the inundations, reedy grass grows in the hollows.
Quote examples
Stanley Elkin
American Novelist
What a writer's message is is totally unimportant. Either he is agreeing with life by affirming, or he is saying life is just a bowl of wormwood.
Quote examples
Phyllis McGinley
American Author
Seventy is wormwood, Seventy is gall But its better to be seventy, Than not alive at all.
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