especially: a European plant (Artemisia absinthium) that has silvery silky-haired leaves and drooping yellow flower heads and yields a bitter dark green oil used in absinthe
Recent Examples on the WebThe wormwood and also other plants used are considered good for digestion and stimulate the appetite. Per And Britt Karlsson, Forbes, 3 Aug. 2022 Berg and Proctor's final recipe includes the wormwood that's essential to vermouth and a half-dozen or so other herbs and such. Carol Deptolla, Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, 31 Jan. 2022 Absinthe contains three key ingredients: wormwood, anise, and fennel. John Debary, Bon Appétit, 23 Apr. 2021 Back then, absinthe was a simpler recipe, consisting of just wine infused with wormwood. John Debary, Bon Appétit, 23 Apr. 2021 Although there are different thoughts on who actually invented absinthe, according to one story it's believed that the first person to use wormwood to make absinthe was a woman in Switzerland by the name of Madame Henriod. Jennifer Nalewicki, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Apr. 2021 Artemisia annua, or sweet wormwood, a plant that belongs to the daisy family and whose extract is a standard treatment for malaria, is gathering attention among African politicians and some... Gabriele Steinhauser, WSJ, 12 May 2020 The remedy, which contains the Artemisia annua (Sweet wormwood) plant often used to treat malaria is being ordered by Tanzania, Equatorial Guinea, Guinea-Bissau and Congo-Brazzaville. Daniel Ekonde, Quartz Africa, 5 May 2020 Artemisinin is derived from sweet wormwood, a plant used in traditional Chinese remedies.Time, 5 Mar. 2020 See More
Word History
Etymology
Middle English wormwode, folk-etymological alteration of warmode, wermod, going back to Old English wermōd, going back to West Germanic *wermōda- (whence Old Saxon wermōda, Old High German wermuota), perhaps going back to a derivative of a base *wermo- "bitter," dissimilated from dialectal Indo-European *(s)u̯eru̯o- (whence Welsh chwerw "bitter," Old Irish serb)