SOUTHERNWOOD

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does southernwood mean? 

• SOUTHERNWOOD (noun)
  The noun SOUTHERNWOOD has 1 sense:

1. shrubby European wormwood naturalized in North America; sometimes used in brewing beer

  Familiarity information: SOUTHERNWOOD used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SOUTHERNWOOD (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Shrubby European wormwood naturalized in North America; sometimes used in brewing beer

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Artemisia abrotanum; southernwood

Hypernyms ("southernwood" is a kind of...):

wormwood (any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium)

Holonyms ("southernwood" is a member of...):

genus Artemisia (usually aromatic shrubs or herbs of north temperate regions and South Africa and western South America: wormwood; sagebrush; mugwort; tarragon)

 Context examples 

Beth had old-fashioned fragrant flowers in her garden, sweet peas and mignonette, larkspur, pinks, pansies, and southernwood, with chickweed for the birds and catnip for the pussies.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Sweet-briar and southernwood, jasmine, pink, and rose have long been yielding their evening sacrifice of incense: this new scent is neither of shrub nor flower; it is—I know it well—it is Mr. Rochester's cigar.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

He strayed down a walk edged with box, with apple trees, pear trees, and cherry trees on one side, and a border on the other full of all sorts of old-fashioned flowers, stocks, sweet-williams, primroses, pansies, mingled with southernwood, sweet-briar, and various fragrant herbs.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)