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southernwoods

southernwoods is the plural of southernwood.

Meaning of southernwood

Noun

southernwood (countable and uncountable, plural southernwoods)

  1. An aromatic shrub, Artemisia abrotanum, related to wormwood.
    • To use a strong decoction of the vegetable bitters as a substitute for alcohol—such, for example as wormwood, chamomile, horehound, southernwood and tanzy.1833, New England Farmer, volume 11, page 43
    Synonyms:
    appleringie, appleringy, boy's love, lad's love, southern wormwood

Questions about southernwoods

What is southernwoods the plural of?
Southernwoods is the plural of southernwood.

Words near southernwoods in the dictionary

  1. southernly
  2. southernmost
  3. southernness
  4. southerns
  5. southernwood
  6. southernwoods
  7. southernwort
  8. southers
  9. Southerton
  10. Southery
  11. Southey

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