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Definition of Field wormwood
1. Noun. European wormwood similar to common wormwood in its properties.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Field Wormwood
Literary usage of Field wormwood
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Rambles in search of wild flowers, and how to distinguish them by Margaret Plues (1879)
"... take a pint of Wormwood tea, it will be sure to cure her outright." A large
bundle of the herb was presented along with the message. The field wormwood ..."
2. Travels in Various Countries of Europe, Asia and Africa by Edward Daniel Clarke (1817)
"field wormwood.. Large downy excrescences grow upon this plant from the perforations
of insects, which are made use of by the Tan- tart to light their pipes ..."
3. Mongolia the Tangut Country, and the Solitudes of Northern Tibet, Being a by Nikolaĭ Mikhaĭlovich Przhevalʹskiĭ, Henry Yule (1876)
"... which now continues through a plain of clay and sand for the most part, covered
with rare clumps of the field wormwood, called by the Mongols ..."
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