different between sagebrush vs wormwood

English

Alternative forms

• sage brush

Etymology

sage +? brush, from resemblance in odor and appearance to Salvia officinalis.

Pronunciation

• (UK, US) IPA^(key): /?se?d???b???/

Noun

sagebrush (plural sagebrushes)

1. Any of several North American aromatic shrubs of the genus Artemisia, having silvery-grey, green leaves.

Derived terms

• alpine sagebrush (Artemisia scopulorum)
• African sagebrush (Artemisia afra)
• Basin sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)
• big sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)
• Bigelow sagebrush (Artemisia bigelovii)
• birdfoot sagebrush (Artemisia pedatifida)
• black sagebrush (Artemisia nova, Artemisia arbuscula)
• blue sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)
• boreal sagebrush (Artemisia arctica)
• budsage (Artemisia spinescens)
• California sagebrush (Artemisia californica)
• Carruth's sagebrush (Artemisia carruthii)
• coastal sagebrush (Artemisia californica)
• dwarf sagebrush (Artemisia scopulorum)
• fringed sagebrush (Artemisia frigida)
• gray sagewort (Artemisia ludoviciana)
• island sagebrush (Artemisia nesiotica)
• little sagebrush (Artemisia arbuscula)
• longleaf sagebrush (Artemisia longifolia)
• low sagebrush (Artemisia arbuscula)
• Michaux sagebrush (Artemisia michauxiana)
• Owyhee sagebrush (Artemisia papposa)
• prairie sagebrush (Artemisia ludoviciana)
• pygmy sagebrush (Artemisia pygmaea)
• ragweed sagebrush (Artemisia franserioides)
• sand sagebrush (Artemisia filifolia)
• scabland sagebrush (Artemisia rigida)
• silver sagebrush (Artemisia cana)
• Succor Creek sagebrush (Artemisia packardiae)
• timberline sagebrush (Artemisia rothrockii)
• threetip sagebrush (Artemisia tripartita)
• white sagebrush (Artemisia ludoviciana)

Translations

English

Etymology

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

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?w?(?)m.w?d/
• (US)

Noun

wormwood (countable and uncountable, plural wormwoods)

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.
   • ca. 1591–95, William Shakespeare, Romeo and Juliet, Act I, Scene iii (the nurse's monologue).

     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!

   • 1611, King James Version, Jeremiah 9:15:

     Therefore thus saith the Lord of hosts, the God of Israel; Behold, I will feed them, even this people, with wormwood, and give them water of gall to drink.

   • ca. 1864, John Clare, "We passed by green closes":

     Blue skippers in sunny hours ope and shut

     Where wormwood and grunsel flowers by the cart ruts […]

   • 1897, Edwin Arlington Robinson, Children of the Night, "Cliff Klingenhagen":

     Cliff took two glasses and filled one with wine

     And one with wormwood.

   Synonyms: grande wormwood, absinthe, mugwort, artemisia

2. Something that causes bitterness or affliction; a cause of mortification or vexation.
   • 1789, John Moore, Zeluco, Valancourt 2008, p. 57:

     The irony of this reply was wormwood to Zeluco; he fell into a gloomy fit of musing, and made no farther inquiry […] .

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Further reading

• Artemisia absinthium on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Artemisia absinthium on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Artemisia absinthium on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

Anagrams

• woodworm