MEANING
Any of several strongly bitter aromatic plants in the genus Artemisia.
Use it for
Add a botanical, medicinal, or symbolically bitter detail.Use a bitter plant or its allusive force to darken a setting.
Words that belong together
- wormwood leaves
- wormwood extract
- bitter as wormwood
On the page
The bottle smelled of wormwood and varnish in the locked cabinet.
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Word forms
- Base
- wormwood
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Usage notes
The plant name also carries literary and biblical associations with bitterness or calamity; those allusions depend on context.
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