absinthe
noun
a green, aromatic liqueur that is 68 percent alcohol, is made with wormwood and other herbs, and has a bitter, licorice flavor.
absinth
-
a variation of
absinthe.
Example Sentences
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They were not a welcoming sight: huge bare rocks covered with birds, a few clumps of absinth, some lenticular scrub, and here and there pieces of rotting wood half buried in the silt.
From Letters from my Windmill by Alphonse Daudet
Among the products of the order, may be mentioned chicory, lettuce, the artichoke, the vegetable oyster, arnica, chamomile-flowers, wormwood, absinth, elecampane, coltsfoot, taraxacum, oil of tansy, etc.
From The Wild Flowers of California: Their Names, Haunts, and Habits by Mary Elizabeth Parsons
