Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

southernwood

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.03 in modern English

Syllables: south-ern-wood
IPA

19

Scrabble Score

12

Letters

3

Syllables

10

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An aromatic shrub, Artemisia abrotanum, related to wormwood.

Countable; Uncountable

Example Sentences

"To use a strong decoction of the vegetable bitters as a substitute for alcohol—such, for example as wormwood, chamomile, horehound, southernwood and tanzy."
"According to the Roman Pliny the Elder, author of Historia Naturalis, southernwood was conducive to sexual excitement when the plant was placed under the bed."

Etymology

From Old English sūþernewudu, equivalent to southern + wood.

Origin

Source language: Old English

Word Breakdown

Root: sūþernewudu

Usage

Inflected Forms

southernwoods (plural)

Synonyms

appleringie appleringy boy's love lad's love southern wormwood artemisia abrotanum

Questions

What does southernwood mean?: An aromatic shrub, Artemisia abrotanum, related to wormwood.
Where does southernwood come from?: It is traced to Old English.

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