sweet wormwood

American  

noun

1. a widely distributed plant, Artemisia annua, having scented leaves and loose, nodding clusters of yellow flowers.

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Example Sentences

There’s a long way to go before sweet wormwood, or artemisia annua, is proven to help treat COVID-19.

From Reuters • Oct. 16, 2020

Based on that study, scientists at the Max Planck Institute of Colloids and Interfaces are now collaborating with ArtemiLife, a U.S. company that grows sweet wormwood, to test plant extracts on SARS-CoV-2 in vitro.

From Science Magazine • May 6, 2020

Yet a recent study demonstrates that feeding rodents sweet wormwood leaves in their entirety — as opposed to a synthesized derivative — overcomes this resistance.

From New York Times • Sep. 14, 2016

In 2015, Tu Youyou was awarded the Nobel Prize for Medicine for her work on artemisinin, an antimalarial drug derived from the sweet wormwood plant, Artemisia annua.

From BBC • Apr. 8, 2016

Paul Flemming went his way, a melancholy man, "drinking the sweet wormwood of his sorrow."

From Hyperion by Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth