n, pl  -thi*um  1  :  WORMWOOD  2 a  :  the dried leaves and flowering tops of a common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium) once used as a bitter tonic and stomachic  b  :  oil of wormwood used as an ingredient of absinthe .
 
 
 
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