wormwood

«wormwood» in Mova's school dictionary: A plant with silvery-grey leaves and a very bitter taste… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 5 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (wormwood — uncountable; a wormwood plant)

meaning for a pupil

1) A plant with silvery-grey leaves and a very bitter taste, used long ago in medicine and in some strong drinks. tree →

2) Something very bitter or painful to bear: «The defeat was wormwood to him.» tree →

3) (Bible) In the Bible wormwood stands for bitterness and sorrow, and in the Book of Revelation «Wormwood» is the name of a star that falls and makes waters bitter. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science and history lessons it is a herb of old medicine; its name comes from an old belief that it drove out worms. In stories and poems «gall and wormwood» means great bitterness. In the Bible (Lamentations, Revelation) it is a sign of grief. Phrases: «gall and wormwood», «as bitter as wormwood».

examples

• Wormwood has soft grey leaves and smells strong. tree →
• The old herbalist hung bunches of wormwood to dry. tree →
• Wormwood tastes so bitter that nobody wanted a second sip. tree →
• In the story, losing the race was wormwood to the proud prince. tree →
• In Revelation, a star called Wormwood falls from the sky. tree →
• Gardeners sometimes plant wormwood to keep some insects away. tree →
• But scarcely had he drunk a very little of the water when he became worse than before, for it was as bitter as wormwood. tree →

note

Usually uncountable. It is not a worm and not wood. Some wormwood is poisonous in large amounts, so never eat wild plants. In Ukrainian, a kind of wormwood is called «chornobyl», which people sometimes link to the Chernobyl story.

In the corpora

• Ye who turn judgment to wormwood, and cast righteousness to the ground;
• Doth one plow there with oxen? that ye have turned justice into gall, and the fruit of righteousness into wormwood;
• But her end is bitter as wormwood, sharp as a two-edged sword.
• They pluck salt-wort with wormwood; and the roots of the broom are their food.
• He hath filled me with bitterness, He hath sated me with wormwood.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «wormwood» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.