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means A potent green anise-and-wormwood spirit, historically distilled with herbs that gave it both its bitter edge and its outsized reputation.

from From French absinthe, borrowed from Latin absinthium, 'wormwood' — which itself comes from Greek apsinthion, a word of uncertain, possibly pre-Greek origin. The plant Artemisia absinthium lent the drink its name and its bitterness; the legends of green fairies and madness came later, courtesy of 19th-century artists, moral panic, and a thujone scare that modern science has mostly debunked.