Wormwood

Etymology
From wormwode:, alteration of wermode:, from  wermod:, wormod:, from. Cognate with wermode:, wermede:,  Wermut:. See.

Noun

 * 1)  An intensely bitter herb (various plants in genus Artemisia) used in the production of  absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic.
 * 2) * William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene iii (the nurse's monologue).
 * But as I said, / When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple / Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool, / To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug! /
 * 1) Anything that causes bitterness or affliction.

Synonyms

 * artemisia, grande wormwood, mugwort, absinthe, Artemisia pontica

Derived terms

 * common wormwood

Translations

 * Albanian: pelin i zi
 * Arabic:
 * Cantonese: 艾草 (ngaai chóu)
 * Chinese: 艾草 (ài cǎo)
 * Croatian: crni pelin
 * Czech: ,
 * Danish: malurt
 * Dutch:
 * Estonian: koirohi
 * Finnish: ,
 * French: ,
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Ancient: (apsinthion)
 * Modern:, , αρτεμισία
 * Hebrew: ארטימיסיה (artimisía), לענה (la'ana)
 * Hungarian: fekete üröm


 * Italian: amarella, assenzio selvatico
 * Japanese: オウシュウヨモギ (ōshū-yomogi)
 * Korean: 머그워트 (meogeuweoteu)
 * Macedonian: пелин
 * Ojibwe: moosewijiibik, moose-ojiibik
 * Persian: (berenjâsef)
 * Polish: bylica pospolita
 * Portuguese: artemísia
 * Romanian: pelin negru
 * Russian: чернобыль (černobýl’), чернобыльник (černobýl’nik) , полынь (polýn’)
 * Slovene: pelin
 * Spanish: artemisa, ajenjo , absintio , alosna
 * Swedish: malört, äkta malört
 * Thai: (kot chulaalamphuaua)
 * Turkish: misk otu, çil baş
 * Ukrainian: чорнобиль (čornobyl’), полин (polyn)
 * Vietnamese:


 * French: ,
 * Greek: χολή (kholí)
 * Portuguese:


 * Russian: жёлчь (žolč’), раздражительность (razdražítel’nost’)
 * Slovene: pelin
 * Spanish: amargor, amargura , mortificación

Anagrams

 * woodworm

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