wormwood

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈwə(ɹ)m.wʊd/    美 /ˈwɚm.wʊd/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. An intensely bitter herb (Artemisia absinthium and similar plants in genus Artemisia) used in medicine, in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic. countable,uncountable
    — 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!
  2. Something that causes bitterness or affliction; a cause of mortification or vexation. countable,figuratively,uncountable
    — The irony of this reply was wormwood to Zeluco; he fell into a gloomy fit of musing, and made no farther inquiry […].

词形变化

wormwoods plural

词汇关系

衍生词
African wormwood annual wormwood common wormwood gall and wormwood Roman wormwood Russian wormwood salt of wormwood sea wormwood sweet wormwood tree wormwood wormwood hare Wormwood Scrubs

词源

From Middle English wormwode, a folk etymology (as if worm + wood) of wermode (“wormwood”), from Old English wermōd (“wormwood, absinthe”), from Proto-West Germanic *warjamōdā (“wormwood”). Cognate with Middle Low German wermode, wermede (“wormwood”), German Wermut (“wormwood”). Doublet of vermouth.
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