Wormwood

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Wormwood (countable and uncountable, plural Wormwoods)

  1. (Christianity) A star or angel that appears in the Book of Revelation, turning waters bitter and poisonous.
    • 1611, The Holy Bible, [] (King James Version), London: [] Robert Barker, [], →OCLC, Revelation 8:10–11:
      And the third angel sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp, and it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains of waters;
      And the name of the star is called Wormwood: and the third part of the waters became wormwood; and many men died of the waters, because they were made bitter.
  2. A surname.
    • 2013, Roald Dahl, Matilda, London: Puffin, →OCLC, page 86:
      Having got the address from the school records, Miss Honey set out to walk from her own home to the Wormwoods’ house shortly after nine.

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