Meaning of southernwood | Babel Free

Definitions

An aromatic shrub, Artemisia abrotanum, related to wormwood.

countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“To use a strong decoction of the vegetable bitters as a substitute for alcohol—such, for example as wormwood, chamomile, horehound, southernwood and tanzy.”

“According to the Roman Pliny the Elder, author of Historia Naturalis, southernwood was conducive to sexual excitement when the plant was placed under the bed.”

CEFR level