southernwood

IPA: sˈʌðɝnwʊd

noun

  • An aromatic shrub, Artemisia abrotanum, related to wormwood.
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Examples of "southernwood" in Sentences

  • I am going to call the southernwood 'appleringie' after this.
  • "I am going to call the southernwood 'appleringie' after this.
  • There are 400 kinds of artemisia, including southernwood and tarragon, all pungent, and ready to plant.
  • The "southernwood" or "old man," cultivated in cottage gardens on account of its fragrance, is another species of it.
  • Artemisias and Gnaphaliums, like our southernwood and cudweed, but six or eight feet high; while Buttercups, Violets, Whortleberries,
  • The window and door were open, and the morning air brought with it a mingled scent of southernwood, thyme, and sweet-briar from the patch of garden by the side of the cottage.
  • The pair had hobbled into the garden to gather rosemary, southernwood, rue, and other plants proper to be strewed upon the body, and burned by way of fumigation in the chimney of the cottage.
  • A linctus for pneumonia: Galbanum and pine-fruit in Attic honey; and southernwood in oxymel; make a decoction of pepper and black hellebore, and give it in cases of pleurisy attended with violent pain at the commencement.
  • The Katzer pages and this botanical log confirm the similar Russian names: mugwort is Чернобыльник ( "Chernobylnik") or botanically Полынь Обыкновенная (Common Polyn);, and according to the southernwood page, wormwood aka Artemisia absinthium is Полынь горькая ( "Bitter Polyn" again).

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