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wurmwood

  • n  any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium

  • The compound is found in wormwood plants that grow in Southeast Asia but costs $2.
  • One of these herbs was wormwood, an excellent stomachic, which by the time of World War I had also acquired a reputation as an aphrodisiac, thereby helping to enrich the firm of .
  • Artemisinin is the biotech world's moniker for qing haosu, a crystalline compound extracted from sweet wormwood, a weedy plant indigenous to China.
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  • Al Schnier in JamBase
    The material differs quite a bit from The Conch and Wormwood which were largely cultivated from songs nurtured through live improvisation,says guitarist Al Schnier. "The songs that comprise Sticks and Stones are much more straight, like...
  • Ben Templesmith in Comic Book Resources
    I had originally wanted the name Wormwood, but they didn't like it, and of the other names I'd chosen, Earth was the one everyone could agree on. It had the Sabbath connotation [Black Sabbath's original name was Earth] and an obscure Bruce... Dylan Carlson http://www.google.com/url?q=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dylan_Carlson&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNGnAxnO9eYnY7zPHSqNTnLkvh41kQ San Francisco Chronicle http://www.google.com/url?q=http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi%3Ff%3D/g/a/2008/06/12/derk.DTL&source=dictionary&usg=AFQjCNH1kJOVVVBbPGhLiGdhxX74l8NP5g Jun 12, 2008 111180 145944 wormwood Wormwood is really just me having fun and trying to throw in as many disgusting perversions of my old childhood influences. I call it my riff on Doctor Who, if it were more demonologically oriented and written for very juvenile adults with a sick...

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