lad's love

lad's love

n (Plants) another name for southernwood

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Noun

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lad's love - aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absintheabsinthe, Artemisia absinthium, common wormwood, old manabsinth, absinthe - strong green liqueur flavored with wormwood and anisegenus Artemisia - usually aromatic shrubs or herbs of north temperate regions and South Africa and western South America: wormwood; sagebrush; mugwort; tarragonwormwood - any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium