common wormwood

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common wormwood - aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absintheabsinthe, Artemisia absinthium, lad's love, 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