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Type Words
Type of suffrutex, subshrub
Has types artemisia abrotanum, artemisia absinthium, artemisia annua, artemisia campestris, artemisia frigida, artemisia maritima, artemisia stelleriana, beach wormwood, common wormwood, absinthe, artemis pontica, sea wormwood, seriphidium maritimum, southernwood, sweet wormwood, wormwood sage, dusty miller, field wormwood, lad's love, mugwort, old man, old woman, prairie sagewort, roman wormwood

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A farmer harvests sweet wormwood trees in Youyang, rural Chongqing, China, 2006.
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The high ceilings are covered in rusted Mexican tiles crossed with wormwood beams.
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Aromas and flavors speak of black plums and cherries, with a hint of wormwood.
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It consists of ephemeris grasses and bushes, wormwood and similar long-term plants.
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Absinthe is a highly alcoholic, anise-flavored spirit, derived from the wormwood herb.
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Pure wormwood oil is very poisonous, but with proper dosage poses little or no danger.
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Wormwood refuses, and in retaliation takes control of the majority of the human race.
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So the corn whiskeys were in, but the absinthe-there's no wormwood in New York-was out.
From the theatlantic.com
In 1988, the European Union started allowing wormwood to be used in alcoholic beverages.
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  • Anything that causes bitterness or affliction
  • A strong-smelling plant with white or yellow flowers used in the Middle Ages as an aid to healthful digestion; the expression "as bitter as wormwood" attests to the extreme bitterness of all parts of the plant.