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wormseed

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English

Syllables
worm-seed
IPA
14
Scrabble Score
8
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

An aromatic tropical plant (Dysphania ambrosioides, syn. Chenopodium ambrosioides) that yields an anthelmintic oil

noun

Santonica or Levant wormseed (Seriphidium cinum, syn. Artemisia cina), an Asian plant related to wormwood.

Etymology

From Middle English wormsede, wormesede, worme sede, wyrmsed, equivalent to worm + seed.

Origin

Word Breakdown

Inflected Forms

wormseeds (plural)

Phrases

wormseed mustard

Synonyms

Jesuit's tea Mexican tea epazote Jerusalem oak drug wormseed bluebush Indian goosefoot Jerusalem tea Spanish tea

Questions

What does wormseed mean?
An aromatic tropical plant (Dysphania ambrosioides, syn. Chenopodium ambrosioides) that yields an anthelmintic oil
Where does wormseed come from?
It is traced to Middle English.

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