Wormwood
Plants
- Several plants of the genus Artemisia:
- Artemisia abrotanum, southern wormwood
- Artemisia absinthium, common wormwood, 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, mugwort
- Ambrosia artemisiifolia, Roman wormwood
- Senna artemisioides, Wormwood senna
Places
- Wormwood Scrubs, an open space in the Hammersmith area of West London
- HM Prison Wormwood Scrubs, a prison in West London
- Wormwood Street, in the City of London
- Wormwood Forest, former name of the Red Forest in Ukraine, surrounding the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant within the Exclusion Zone
Arts and entertainment
Fictional entities
- Wormwood, a character in C. S. Lewis's The Screwtape Letters
- Matilda Wormwood, the title character of the children's novel Matilda by Roald Dahl
- Miss Wormwood, a minor character in Calvin and Hobbes
- Mrs Wormwood, a character in the first episode of The Sarah Jane Adventures, Invasion of the Bane, who reappeared in Enemy of the Bane
- Wormwood, a playable character in Don't Starve's Hamlet DLC
- Wormwood Deathship, described in the Abarat books by Clive Barker
Film and television
- Wormwood (TV series), a 2007 Canadian and Australian children's television program
- Wormwood (miniseries), a 2017 docudrama directed by Errol Morris
Literature
- Wormwood (short story collection), a book of short horror stories by Poppy Z. Brite
- Wormwood (Taylor novel), a 2004 fantasy novel by Graham Taylor
- Wormwood, a collection of science fiction stories by Terry Dowling
- Wormwood: A Drama of Paris, an 1890 novel by Marie Corelli
Periodicals
- Wormwood (magazine), a magazine of literature and literary criticism
- Wormwood: Gentleman Corpse, a comic book series by Ben Templesmith
- Wormwood Review, a literary magazine published from 1959 to 1999
- Chronicles of Wormwood, a comic book miniseries by Garth Ennis from Avatar Press
Music
- Wormwood, a side-project band featuring two members of Doomriders
- Wormwood (Marduk album), 2009
- Wormwood (Moe album), 2003
- Wormwood (The Acacia Strain album), 2010
- Wormwood: Curious Stories from the Bible, a 1998 album by The Residents
- Wormwood Live, a 1999 live album by the Residents
Other uses
- Wormwood (Bible), also called Apsinthos in the Book of Revelation, a star that falls upon Earth and poisons a third part of the waters
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