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southernwood

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12 lettersPart of speech nounSorted dehnooorstuwStarts with SEnds with D0 clues
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Definitions

  1. shrubby European wormwood naturalized in North America; sometimes used in brewing beer

Word origin

From Old English sūþernewudu, equivalent to southern + wood.

Used in a sentence

  • 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.

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