absinthe
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• noun
A potent, anise-flavored, typically green alcoholic spirit distilled from botanicals including the leaves and flowers of grand wormwood, green anise, and sweet fennel.
"The bartender slowly dripped ice water over a sugar cube into the glass of absinthe until the green spirit turned milky white."
A perennial herbaceous plant of the daisy family (Artemisia absinthium), native to temperate Eurasia and northern Africa, having silvery-gray divided leaves and an intensely bitter taste; grand wormwood.
"Before being distilled into liquor, absinthe was cultivated in monastery gardens as a bitter medicinal herb."
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Word Origin & Etymology
Borrowed in the late 18th century from French absinthe, from Latin absinthium ('wormwood'), which derives from Ancient Greek apsinthion, a loanword of Pre-Greek or Middle Eastern origin.