Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun An aromatic shrubby artemisia (Artemisia abrotanum) of southern Europe, having finely divided grayish foliage and pale yellow flower heads.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A shrubby-stemmed species of wormwood, Artemisia Abrotanum, found wild in southern Europe, especially in Spain, but of somewhat uncertain origin. It is cultivated in gardens for its pleasantly scented, finely dissected leaves.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Bot.) A shrubby species of wormwood (
Artemisia Abrotanum ) having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun An
aromatic shrub , Artemisia abrotanum, related towormwood
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun shrubby European wormwood naturalized in North America; sometimes used in brewing beer
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Examples
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I am going to call the southernwood 'appleringie' after this.
The Story Girl Lucy Maud 1911
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The "southernwood" or "old man," cultivated in cottage gardens on account of its fragrance, is another species of it.
Easton's Bible Dictionary M.G. Easton 1897
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"I am going to call the southernwood 'appleringie' after this.
The Story Girl 1908
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There are 400 kinds of artemisia, including southernwood and tarragon, all pungent, and ready to plant.
A New Whiff on Potpourri William L. Hamilton 2011
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The pair had hobbled into the garden to gather rosemary, southernwood, rue, and other plants proper to be strewed upon the body, and burned by way of fumigation in the chimney of the cottage.
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A linctus for pneumonia: Galbanum and pine-fruit in Attic honey; and southernwood in oxymel; make a decoction of pepper and black hellebore, and give it in cases of pleurisy attended with violent pain at the commencement.
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The Katzer pages and this botanical log confirm the similar Russian names: mugwort is Чернобыльник ( "Chernobylnik") or botanically Полынь Обыкновенная (Common Polyn);, and according to the southernwood page, wormwood aka Artemisia absinthium is Полынь горькая ( "Bitter Polyn" again).
Archive 2004-05-01 Ray Girvan 2004
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The Katzer pages and this botanical log confirm the similar Russian names: mugwort is Чернобыльник ( "Chernobylnik") or botanically Полынь Обыкновенная (Common Polyn);, and according to the southernwood page, wormwood aka Artemisia absinthium is Полынь горькая ( "Bitter Polyn" again).
A star called Mugwort Ray Girvan 2004
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The window and door were open, and the morning air brought with it a mingled scent of southernwood, thyme, and sweet-briar from the patch of garden by the side of the cottage.
Adam Bede 2004
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Artemisias and Gnaphaliums, like our southernwood and cudweed, but six or eight feet high; while Buttercups, Violets, Whortleberries,
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