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  • noun Plural form of wormwood.

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  • Other places that are slightly less arid support semi-desert shrub communities, comprised of wormwoods (Artemisia salsoloides, A. ordosica), beancaper (Zygophyllum xanthoxylum), and Calligonum mongolicum.

    Alashan Plateau semi-desert 2008

  • The mostly treeless steppe, where silvery wormwoods, shrubby chenopods, and stands of tall grasses once extended as far as the eye could see, began yielding to woodlands of oak, terebinth, almond, maple, and hawthorn.

    The Goddess and the Bull MICHAEL BALTER 2005

  • Yet in some parts of these regions the vegetation is extraordinary: 'the wormwoods and thistles grow to a size unknown in the west of Europe; it is said that the thistle-bush, found where these abound, is tall enough to hide a Cossack horseman.

    Chambers's Edinburgh Journal, No. 438 Volume 17, New Series, May 22, 1852 Various 1841

  • Peppers like it a little drier I think. dale, i found eight sweet celery plants amongst the wormwoods. planted them ... the rabbits found them .. bummer. cecile, i have tomatoes, but they are still short and not thriving.

    WFMU's recent playlists 2009

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