英语词汇“wormwood”的英英意思、用法、释义、翻译、读音、例句、短语、词组-英语词典

wormwood

/ˈwəːmwʊd

noun [mass noun]

1A woody shrub with a bitter aromatic taste, used as an ingredient of vermouth and absinthe and in medicine.

Genus Artemisia, family Compositae: several species, in particular the Eurasian A. absinthium.

This is a powdered mixture of natural ingredients that contains garlic as well as alfalfa, wormwood, yellowdock and pennyroyal....

Bitter herbs that would help would be gentian, artichoke, bitter orange, turmeric, wormwood and chamomile.
Hemingway later blamed the damage on woodworm, a witty reference to absinthe's quasi - magical ingredient - wormwood.

2A state or source of bitterness or grief.The survivors of the 1996 election were relegated to a kind of mute opposition, forced to sip wormwood from the cup of their own brewing....

To be sure, the morbidity has become less lush; it's been distilled into essence of wormwood.

Origin

Old English wermōd. The change in spelling in late Middle English was due to association with worm and wood. Compare with vermouth.

单词	wormwood
释义	wormwood /ˈwəːmwʊd / noun [mass noun] 1A woody shrub with a bitter aromatic taste, used as an ingredient of vermouth and absinthe and in medicine. Genus Artemisia, family Compositae: several species, in particular the Eurasian A. absinthium. This is a powdered mixture of natural ingredients that contains garlic as well as alfalfa, wormwood, yellowdock and pennyroyal.... Bitter herbs that would help would be gentian, artichoke, bitter orange, turmeric, wormwood and chamomile. Hemingway later blamed the damage on woodworm, a witty reference to absinthe's quasi - magical ingredient - wormwood. 2A state or source of bitterness or grief.The survivors of the 1996 election were relegated to a kind of mute opposition, forced to sip wormwood from the cup of their own brewing.... To be sure, the morbidity has become less lush; it's been distilled into essence of wormwood. Origin Old English wermōd. The change in spelling in late Middle English was due to association with worm and wood. Compare with vermouth.
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