Wormwood - Vine's Expository Dictionary of New Testament Words
Wormwood
[ 1,,G894, apsinthos ](Eng., absinthe"), a plant both bitter and deleterious, and growing in desolate places, figuratively suggestive of "calamity" (Lamentations 3:15) and injustice (Amos 5:7), is used in Revelation 8:11 (twice; in the 1st part as a proper name).