wormwood

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

WORMWOOD, noun [G.] A plant, the artemisia. It has a bitter nauseous taste; but it is stomachic and corroborant. Tree-wormwood, a species of Artemisia, with woody stalks.
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