Crossword clues for southernwood
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Southernwood \South"ern*wood`\, n. (Bot.) A shrubby species of wormwood ( Artemisia Abrotanum) having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.
Wiktionary
n. An aromatic shrub, (taxlink Artemisia abrotanum species noshow=1), related to wormwood.
WordNet
n. shrubby European wormwood naturalized in North America; sometimes used in brewing beer [syn: Artemisia abrotanum]
Usage examples of "southernwood".
I keep in health by eating plentifully of herbs sage, rue, tansy, marjoram, southernwood, lemon-balm, mint, fennel and parsley.
Todd was an ardent lover of herbs, both wild and tame, and the sea-breezes blew into the low end-window of the house laden with not only sweet-brier and sweetmary, but balm and sage and borage and mint, wormwood and southernwood.
Again in the case of all things which exhale from their body a pungent smell, all-heal, nauseous wormwood, strong-scented southernwood and the bitter centauries, any one of which, if you happen to [feel it] lightly between two [fingers, will impregnate them with a strong smell] * * but rather you are to know that idols of things wander about many in number in many ways, of no force, powerless to excite sense.