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| worm·wood [ wúrm wd ] |
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1. bitter-tasting plant: a plant that yields a bitter extract. Use: flavoring for absinthe, formerly, medicine for intestinal worms. Genus Artemisia.
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2. cause of bitterness: something that causes somebody to feel bitter
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 Her ingratitude was wormwood to him.
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| [14th century. By folk etymology < Old English wermod, by association with worm, because the plant was used as medicine for intestinal worms] |
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