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Jan 7, 2011 This week's theme Words related to trees and plants This week's words dendroid ligneous primrose path sylvan wormwood Wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) Photo: Doug Waylett This week's comments AWADmail 445 Next week's theme Short words Discuss Feedback RSS/XML A.Word.A.Day with Anu Garg wormwood PRONUNCIATION: (WUHRM-wood) MEANING: noun: 1. A plant of the genus Artemisia, used in making absinthe and medicines. 2. Something that brings bitterness or grief. ETYMOLOGY: From alteration of wermod, of obscure origin. Earliest documented use: 1400. USAGE: "It is gall and wormwood for a leader already politically crippled by Britain's commitment in Iraq to find himself now also engaged in a confrontation with Iran." Max Hastings; Iran, the Vicious Victim; The New York Times; Mar 30, 2007. Explore "wormwood" in the Visual Thesaurus. A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Habit with him was all the test of truth, / It must be right: I've done it from my youth. -George Crabbe, poet and naturalist (1754-1832)

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