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单词 southernwood
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southernwoodn.

Brit. /ˈsʌðnwʊd/, U.S. /ˈsəðərnˌwʊd/
Forms:

α. see southern adj. and wood n.1; also Old English sæðrenewuda, late Middle English soþerendwode, late Middle English sothenredwode (perhaps transmission error), late Middle English souþernedwode, late Middle English sothronwode, 1600s south-hern wood.

β. early Middle English suþerwude, early Middle English suðerwude, Middle English soþerwode, Middle English sotherwode, 1500s–1700s sotherwood.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: southern adj., wood n.1
Etymology: < southern adj. + wood n.1, so called because it was introduced from southern Europe. With the β. forms compare souther adj. Compare later southwort n., southernwort n.Late Middle English forms with -d- perhaps show development of a glide consonant between n and w.
1. A hardy southern European shrub, Artemisia abrotanum (family Asteraceae ( Compositae)), with distinctively fragrant, finely divided leaves and panicles of yellowish flowers. Also more fully common southernwood, garden southernwood.Formerly cultivated for medicinal purposes, but now more usually grown as an ornamental.
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the world > plants > particular plants > cultivated or valued plants > particular medicinal plants or parts > [noun] > southernwood
southernwoodOE
southworta1300
averoynec1350
southernwort1510
sullenwooda1626
boy's love1810
lad's lovea1825
old man1824
α.
OE tr. Pseudo-Apuleius Herbarium (Vitell.) (1984) cxxxv. 174 Ðeos wyrt þe man abrotanum & oðrum naman suðernewuda nemneþ ys twegea cynna.
?a1300 in S. G. Hamilton Catal. MSS Worcester Cathedral (1906) 184 Abrotonum, souþernewode.
a1400 J. Mirfield Sinonoma Bartholomei (1882) 12 Averoyn, southrenwode.
Promptorium Parvulorum (Harl. 221) 467/1 Sowtherne woode, herbe,..Abrotonum.
?c1450 in Anglia (1896) 18 295 Aueroyne he take..Queche is callyd soþernwode also.
1548 W. Turner Names of Herbes sig. A.iiij Sothernwod is hote and dry in the thirde degree.
?1550 H. Llwyd tr. Pope John XXI Treasury of Healthe sig. X.iiiv Sothernewood & freshe grece..do drawe oute spriges, thornes, and other thinges.
1614 A. Gorges tr. Lucan Pharsalia ix. 406 That which Southernwood we call, Whose smoake the serpents so distast.
1671 J. Webster Metallographia xv. 211 Resembling the shrub Southernwood, thick set with little twigs leaning one to another.
1718 J. Quincy Pharmacopœia Officinalis 121 Southern-wood..is now almost out of use in Medicine.
1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xxvi. 389 Southernwood is shrubby, erect, and has setaceous leaves, very much branched.
1832 Ld. Tennyson Mariana in South in Poems (new ed.) 20 Not a breath..moved the dusty southernwood.
1857 A. Henfrey Elem. Course Bot. 320 Artemisia Abrotanum is Garden Southern-wood.
1883 Lancet 20 Oct. 705/1 The common southernwood (Artemisia abrotanum) is reported..to yield a crystallisable alkaloid which he has named ‘abrotine’.
1903 Garden 10 Oct. 248/2 Even in the last century a spray of Southernwood with Rue was always placed by the prisoner in the dock as a preventive against jail fever.
1973 F. A. Boddy Foliage Plants iv. 62 Old world charm and sentimentality can be further satisfied with the grey, feathery, aromatic leaves of Artemisia abrotanum, commonly called southernwood.
2006 I. Pauwels & G. Christoffels Herbs 105/1 Southernwood is not fussy about soil as long as it is dry.
β. c1225 ( Ælfric Gloss. (Worcester) in T. Wright & R. P. Wülcker Anglo-Saxon & Old Eng. Vocab. (1884) I. 544 Abrotanum, suþerwude [OE St. John's Oxf. suðerne wudu].a1400 Alphita (Selden) (1887) 98 Linerinum, abrotanum idem, gallice, averoyne; anglice, sotherwode.?a1475 Promptorium Parvulorum (Winch.) (1908) 426 Sotherwode, herbe, abrotanum.c1560 (a1500) Squyr Lowe Degre (Copland) l. 33 The sother-wood and sykamoure.1761 T. Percy Let. July in T. Warton Corr. (1995) I. 98 The author has reckoned the lily, the piany, the sother-wood, etc. as trees.
2. With distinguishing word: any of various other species of the genus Artemisia, or plants resembling the southernwood in some way.field southernwood: see the first element.
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the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Compositae (composite plants) > [noun] > Artemisia or mugwort
mugworteOE
artemisiaOE
mugweeda1400
motherwort1440
matricary1523
French wormwood1548
holy wormwood1548
sea-mugwort1548
sea-wormwood1548
tree wormwood1548
Roman wormwood1551
southernwood1577
garden cypress1578
mouse-wort1607
field southernwood1739
sage1805
hyssop1807
sage-bush1807
appleringie1808
absinth1841
sage-brush1850
1577 B. Googe tr. C. Heresbach Foure Bks. Husbandry ii. f. 65v Some call it Santonia, & female Sothernewood.
1578 H. Lyte tr. R. Dodoens Niewe Herball 1 There be two sortes of Sothrenwood (as Dioscorides sayth) the one called female Sothrenwood, or the great Sothrenwood, the other is the male kinde.
1611 R. Chester Ann. Great Brit. 82 The dead Arkeangell that for wennes is good, The Souldiers perrow, and great Southernewood.
1670 J. Ray Catalogus Plantarum Angliæ 2 Abrotanum campestre... Wild Sothern-wood. At a place called Elden in Norfolk, 12 miles from Newmarket, in the way towards Lynne.
1731 P. Miller Gardeners Dict. I. at Abrotanum The Lesser and Narrower-leav'd Southernwood.
1796 W. Withering Arrangem. Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 709 Artemisia maritima. Sea Southernwood. Sea Wormwood.
1826 W. Ainslie Materia Indica I. i. ccxi. 400 This species of wormwood [sc. Artemisia austriaca] has, improperly, got the name of Indian southernwood, by the European inhabitants on the Coromandel coast.
1853 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) 89/1 Artemisia Santonica,..the Tartarian southern-wood, or wormwood, or the worm-seed plant.
1912 Times 28 Sept. 10/6 On slopes facing south a drift of Aethionema grandiflorum goes well with a drift of the dwarf southernwood, Artemisia pedemontana.
1980 R. Stark Bk. of Aphrodisiacs 89 Field Southernwood, Artemisia campestris, employed medicinally in much the same way as Southernwood, is not as potent.

Compounds

attributive and in combination, as southernwood-leaved, southernwood twig, etc.
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1694 tr. T. Sydenham Compl. Method curing Dis. 87 Take of Oil of bitter Almonds, Oil of Laurel, the Ashes of Sothernwood leaves, of each one ounce.
1775 R. Weston Flora Anglicana ii. 47/2 Southernwood-leaved Yarrow.
1822 S. Clarke Hortus Anglicus II. 389 S. Abrotanifolius. Southernwood-leaved Groundsel.
1849 Diss. Silk Manuf. (Shanghae) 10 The southern-wood twigs are of a cooling nature.
1881 T. Jerrold & J. Jerrold Househ. Hort. 72 It is a common thing to hear through the suburbs of the metropolis hawkers crying Lavender and Southernwood roots for sale.
2004 F. Manos Midwest Cottage Gardening 49/1 While some herbalists recommend tossing southernwood leaves in your salad, I wouldn't dream of serving such a thing.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2011; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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