What is the difference between wormwood and absinthium?
wormwood | absinthium |
(botany) An intensely bitter herb (Artemisia absinthium'' and similar plants in genus ''Artemisia ) used in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic.
* (rfdate), William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet'', Act I, Scene iii ''(the nurse's monologue) .
Anything that causes bitterness or affliction.
(now, rare) The common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium ), an intensely bitter herb used in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic.
The dried leaves and flowering tops of the wormwood plant; absinthe oil.
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As nouns the difference between wormwood and absinthium
is that wormwood is {{context|botany|lang=en}} an intensely bitter herb (various plants in genus artemisia ) used in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic while absinthium is {{context|nowadays|rare|botany|lang=en}} the common wormwood ((taxlink)), an intensely bitter herb used in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic {{defdate|first attested around 1150 to 1350}}{{reference-book | last =| first = | authorlink = | coauthors = | editor =brown, lesley | others = | title = the shorter oxford english dictionary | origdate = | origyear = 1933| origmonth = | url = | format = | accessdate = | accessyear = | accessmonth = | edition = 5th | date = | year =2003| month = | publisher =oxford university press | location =oxford, uk | language = | id = | doi = | isbn =978-0-19-860575-7 | lccn = | ol = | pages =9| chapter = | chapterurl = | quote =}}.wormwood
English
(wikipedia wormwood)Noun
(en noun)- 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! /