A plant whose seeds have the property of destroying parasitic worms.
(also 'Levant wormseed') santonica.
(also 'American wormseed') an American plant of the goosefoot family (Chenopodium ambrosioides, family Chenopodiaceae).
Example sentencesExamples
He says that the impression that wormseed oil is produced from a wild herb of that name is misleading.
One of the farmers in southern Carroll County who raised wormseed was Larry Haines, now a state senator.
Other artemisias, some American, are also called wormwood; still others include southernwood, tarragon, silver king Artemisia, old woman, or dusty miller, Roman wormwood, sagebrush, and the Levant wormseed, which yields santonin.
This plant is closely related to the parent plant of American wormseed oil.
Most of the wormseed of commerce comes from the steppes of the northern portion of Turkestan whence it finds its way to Moscow and Western Europe.
Definition of wormseed in US English:
wormseed
nounˈwərmsidˈwərmsēd
A plant whose seeds have the property of destroying parasitic worms.
(also 'Levant wormseed') santonica
(also 'American wormseed') an American plant of the goosefoot family (Chenopodium ambrosioides, family Chenopodiaceae)
Example sentencesExamples
Other artemisias, some American, are also called wormwood; still others include southernwood, tarragon, silver king Artemisia, old woman, or dusty miller, Roman wormwood, sagebrush, and the Levant wormseed, which yields santonin.
One of the farmers in southern Carroll County who raised wormseed was Larry Haines, now a state senator.
Most of the wormseed of commerce comes from the steppes of the northern portion of Turkestan whence it finds its way to Moscow and Western Europe.
He says that the impression that wormseed oil is produced from a wild herb of that name is misleading.
This plant is closely related to the parent plant of American wormseed oil.