southernwood

noun

1. (countable, uncountable)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.”

   “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.”