worm·wood /ˈwɝmˌwʊd/
 苦艾;苦惱,奇恥大辱
 worm·wood /ˈwɝmˌwʊd/ 名詞
 苦艾
 Worm·wood n.
 1. Bot. A composite plant (Artemisia Absinthium), having a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genus.
 2. Anything very bitter or grievous; bitterness.
    Lest there should be among you a root that beareth gall and wormwood.   --Deut. xxix. 18.
 Roman wormwood Bot., an American weed (Ambrosia artemisiaefolia); hogweed.
 Tree wormwood Bot., a species of Artemisia (probably Artemisia variabilis) with woody stems.
 Wormwood hare Zool., a variety of the common hare (Lepus timidus); -- so named from its color.
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 wormwood
      n : any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia
          or Seriphidium
 Wormwood
    Heb. la'anah, the Artemisia absinthium of botanists. It is noted
    for its intense bitterness (Deut. 29:18; Prov. 5:4; Jer. 9:15;
    Amos 5:7). It is a type of bitterness, affliction, remorse,
    punitive suffering. In Amos 6:12 this Hebrew word is rendered
    "hemlock" (R.V., "wormwood"). In the symbolical language of the
    Apocalypse (Rev. 8:10, 11) a star is represented as falling on
    the waters of the earth, causing the third part of the water to
    turn wormwood.
      The name by which the Greeks designated it, absinthion, means
    "undrinkable." The absinthe of France is distilled from a
    species of this plant. The "southernwood" or "old man,"
    cultivated in cottage gardens on account of its fragrance, is
    another species of it.