English > genus Artemisia: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | usually aromatic shrubs or herbs of north temperate regions and South Africa and western South America: wormwood; sagebrush; mugwort; tarragon. |
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| Member of | Compositae, family Compositae, Asteraceae, family Asteraceae, aster family | plants with heads composed of many florets |
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| Members | California sagebrush, California sage, Artemisia californica | Low ashy-grey California shrub |
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| Roman wormwood, Artemis pontica | European wormwood |
| artemisia | Any of various composite shrubs or herbs of the genus Artemisia having aromatic green or greyish foliage |
| bud brush, bud sagebrush, Artemis spinescens | A perennial that is valuable as sheep forage in the United States |
| common wormwood, absinthe, old man, lad's love, Artemisia absinthium | aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe |
| dusty miller, beach wormwood, old woman, Artemisia stelleriana | herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America |
| field wormwood, Artemisia campestris | European wormwood similar to common wormwood in its properties |
| mugwort | Any of several weedy composite plants of the genus Artemisia |
| sand sage, silvery wormwood, Artemisia filifolia | silver-haired shrub of central and southern United States and Mexico |
| southernwood, Artemisia abrotanum | shrubby European wormwood naturalized in North America |
| sweet wormwood, Artemisia annua | wormwood of southeastern Europe to Iran |
| wormwood sage, prairie sagewort, Artemisia frigida | silky-leaved aromatic perennial of dry northern parts of the northern hemisphere |
| Broader | asterid dicot genus | genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs |
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| Spanish | genus artemisia |
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| Catalan | genus artemisia |
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