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1. wormwood
noun. ['ˈwɝːmˌwʊd'] any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium.
Synonyms
- Artemisia annua
- field wormwood
- Roman wormwood
- suffrutex
- beach wormwood
- Artemisia campestris
- Artemisia absinthium
- dusty miller
- Asteraceae
- old woman
- prairie sagewort
- Artemisia stelleriana
- sea wormwood
- sweet wormwood
- Compositae
- mugwort
- aster family
- Seriphidium maritimum
- lad's love
- wormwood sage
- family Compositae
- Artemisia frigida
- Artemisia abrotanum
- Artemisia maritima
- Artemis pontica
- subshrub
- old man
- absinthe
- common wormwood
- southernwood
Antonyms
- woman
- mother
- euphemism
- female parent
Etymology
- wormwode (Middle English (1100-1500))
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Words that Rhyme with Wormwood
- allenwood
- armwood
- arrowood
- arwood
- ashwood
- attwood
- atwood
- beechwood
- bellwood
- bigwood
- blackwood
- bournewood
- boxwood
- braidwood
- brentwood
- catherwood
- caywood
- chatswood
- cheatwood
- chitwood
Example sentences of the word wormwood
1. Noun, singular or mass
Thujone is a component of wormwood that is believed to cause the majority of damage to the body.
Quotes containing the word wormwood
1. Ms. Wormwood: Calvin, can you tell us what Lewis and Clark did? Calvin: No, but I can recite the secret superhero origin of each member of Captain Napalm's Thermonuclear League of Liberty. Ms. Wormwood: See me after class, Calvin. Calvin: [retrospectively] I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
- Bill Watterson