What's the difference between southernwood and wormwood?

Southernwood


Definition:

  • (n.) A shrubby species of wormwood (Artemisia Abrotanum) having aromatic foliage. It is sometimes used in making beer.

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Wormwood


Definition:

  • (n.) A composite plant (Artemisia Absinthium), having a bitter and slightly aromatic taste, formerly used as a tonic and a vermifuge, and to protect woolen garments from moths. It gives the peculiar flavor to the cordial called absinthe. The volatile oil is a narcotic poison. The term is often extended to other species of the same genus.
  • (n.) Anything very bitter or grievous; bitterness.

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  • (1) UK prison population is biggest in western Europe Read more The final version of the inspection report remains highly critical of conditions in Wormwood Scrubs, where outcomes for the 1,258 men held there are still “unacceptably poor”.
  • (2) He was killed as armed police swooped and foiled an attempt to free Izzet Eren as he was being transported from Wormwood Scrubs prison to Wood Green crown court on 11 December.
  • (3) More than 50 staff at Wormwood Scrubs prison have walked out, saying they do not feel safe there.
  • (4) Staff are human, they are under extreme pressure, the service is under extreme pressure, and sometimes there are tragic consequences.” In the 20-month period, the figures show that Woodhill, Wormwood Scrubs and Hewell prisons had the highest number of self-inflicted deaths, with five each.
  • (5) Question Time will be recorded at about 8.30pm next Thursday and then broadcast at 10.35pm on BBC1 from Wormwood Scrubs, a category B prison in west London that accepts inmates who are over 21 who and do not require maximum security.
  • (6) A few days later, he was judged well enough to return to Wormwood Scrubs, where it appeared that the jail was not prepared for him.
  • (7) He said that he had dumped one of the devices in a park in Wormwood Scrubs, west London, and later handed himself into police saying that he had backed out of the plot, which he believed was real, at the last minute.
  • (8) I want to see prisoners motivated to engage in their own learning and governors with the right tools to be more demanding and creative about the education provided in the prisons they run.” Coates recently carried out a review of teaching standards for the Department for Education and her recommended diet of punctuality, respect and constant exams has been credited with turning around Burlington Danes academy in White City in west London, which lies in the shadow of Wormwood Scrubs prison.
  • (9) In August last year, Daniel Roque Hall was rushed from Wormwood Scrubs prison, London to University College Hospital and placed in intensive care.
  • (10) It is not the first time Wormwood Scrubs has been used as a broadcasting venue.
  • (11) I have taught around 40 inmates in Wormwood Scrubs and 10 in Brixton alongside three other mentors.
  • (12) In February this year, he was released by the court of appeal after his lawyers argued Wormwood Scrubs could not meet his complex medical needs.
  • (13) The activities of six other species of Tanacetum, as well as of Artemisia absinthium (wormwood) and Zingiber officinale (ginger), and two commercial drugs for migraine prophylaxis, verapamil hydrochloride and propranolol hydrochloride, were also assessed.
  • (14) Allergenic active fractions of ragweed, wormwood, goosefoot and sunflower pollen with a molecular weight of 37 000, 19 000, 35 000 and 14 000, respectively, were isolated by chromatography on Sephadex.
  • (15) Anne says the judge looked shocked after Wormwood Scrubs insisted it was perfectly capable of looking after her son.
  • (16) They also heard from Zoe Kealey who talked frankly about the painful events that led up to her brother Darwin hanging himself in Wormwood Scrubs prison.
  • (17) Security on BBC1's Question Time will be tighter than ever for Thursday night's edition being broadcast from Wormwood Scrubs and featuring under-fire justice secretary Ken Clarke.
  • (18) The earlier version also reported that one in 10 prisoners at Wormwood Scrubs said they had been physically assaulted and that “too many prisoners at risk of suicide or self-harm were held in the segregation unit without any explanation of the exceptional reasons required to justify it”.
  • (19) Jennifer Edward-Price, deputy education manager at Wormwood Scrubs, has seen at first hand inmates’ transformation.
  • (20) Cell Mates, the story of the relationship between the Russian spy George Blake and Sean Bourke, the Irishman who helped him escape from Wormwood Scrubs prison in 1966 and defect to Moscow, looked like a surefire success.

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