Absinthium: alternatives and connections

The plant absinthium or common wormwood.

Of or pertaining to wormwood; absinthian.

Of the nature of wormwood.

Relating to the common wormwood or to an acid obtained from it.

The bitter principle of wormwood (Artemisia absinthium).

A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well…

Having as immediate relation to the tonic, in distinction from plagal, which has a correspondent relation to the dominant in the octav…

Having a peculiar, acrid, biting taste, like that of wormwood or an infusion of hops; as, a bitter medicine; bitter as aloes.

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.

A plant (Menyanthes trifoliata) which grows in moist and boggy places, having racemes of white or reddish flowers and intensely bitter…

perennial plant of Europe and America having racemes of white or purplish flowers and intensely bitter trifoliate leaves; often rootin…

The root of a plant (Jateorrhiza Calumba, and probably Cocculus palmatus), indigenous in Mozambique. It has an unpleasantly bitter tas…

A genus of herbs (Anthemis) of the Composite family. The common camomile, A. nobilis, is used as a popular remedy. Its flowers have a…

One of the elementary substances, commonly isolated as a greenish yellow gas, two and one half times as heavy as air, of an intensely…

The light spongy pulp of the fruit of the bitter cucumber (Citrullus, / Cucumis, colocynthis), an Asiatic plant allied to the watermel…

Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a t…

Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc.

A plant of the genus Marrubium (M. vulgare), which has a bitter taste, and is a weak tonic, used as a household remedy for colds, coug…