Wormwood

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Wormwood may refer to:

Plants

• Various plants of the genus Artemisia particularly
  • Artemisia absinthium (grande wormwood or absinthe wormwood)
  • Artemisia annua (sweet wormwood or annual wormwood)
  • Artemisia herba-alba (white wormwood), the wormwood of the Bible
  • Artemisia pontica (Roman wormwood)
  • Artemisia vulgaris (common wormwood)

Other plants:-

• Ambrosia artemisiifolia (Roman wormwood)
• Senna artemisioides (wormwood senna)

Comics

• Miss Wormwood, a minor character in Calvin and Hobbes
• Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse, a comic book series by Ben Templesmith
• Chronicles of Wormwood, a comic book miniseries by Garth Ennis from Avatar Press

Literature

• Wormwood (star), also called Apsinthos in the Book of Revelation, a star that falls upon Earth and poisons a third part of the waters
• Wormwood (magazine), a magazine of literature and literary criticism
• Wormwood (book), a book of short horror stories by Poppy Z. Brite
• Wormwood: A Drama of Paris, an 1890 novel by Marie Corelli
• Wormwood (G. P. Taylor), a 2004 fantasy novel by Graham Taylor
• Wormwood, a character in C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters
• Mrs Wormwood, a character in the pilot episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures: "Invasion of the Bane", who reappeared in Enemy of the Bane
• Mr. Wormwood, a fictional character in the British book Matilda, by Roald Dahl, and lead character in the film based on the book
• Wormwood Review, a literary magazine published from 1959 to 1999
• Wormwood Deathship described in the Abarat books by Clive Barker

Music

• Wormwood (Bader Nana album), 2011
• Wormwood (Marduk album), 2009
• Wormwood (moe. album), 2003
• Wormwood: Curious Stories from the Bible, a 1998 album by The Residents
• Wormwood (The Acacia Strain album), 2010
• "Wormwood", a song by Callisto
• "Wormwood", a song by Tristania
• "Wormwood", a song by Snowman
• "Wormwood", a song by Michale Graves
• "Wormwood", a song by Fozzy
• Wormwood Live, a 1999 live album by the Residents
• "Wormwood", a song by Campaign
• "Wormwood", a song by Close Your Eyes

Places

• HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs, a prison in West London
• Wormwood Scrubs, an open space in the Hammersmith area of West London
• Wormwood Street in the City of London

Other references

• Wormwood (computer virus), a proof of concept computer virus infecting FreeBSD systems, perhaps the first published virus for this OS
• Wormwood (TV series), a Canadian and Australian children's television program

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