Wormwood

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim An intensely bitter herb (Artemisia absinthium and similar plants in genus Artemisia) used in medicine, in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic.

   “But as I said, / When it did taste the wormwood on the nipple / Of my dug and felt it bitter, pretty fool, / To see it tetchy and fall out with the dug!”

2. isim Something that causes bitterness or affliction; a cause of mortification or vexation.

   “The irony of this reply was wormwood to Zeluco; he fell into a gloomy fit of musing, and made no farther inquiry […].”

3. özel isim A star or angel that appears in the Book of Revelation, turning waters bitter and poisonous.
4. özel isim A surname.

   “Having got the address from the school records, Miss Honey set out to walk from her own home to the Wormwoods’ house shortly after nine.”