English > wormwood: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any of several low composite herbs of the genera ... / genera Artemisia or Seriphidium. |
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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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| Narrower | Roman wormwood, Artemis pontica | European wormwood |
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| 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 |
| sea wormwood, Seriphidium maritimum, Artemisia maritima | plants of western and northern European coasts |
| 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 | subshrub, suffrutex | low-growing woody shrub or perennial with woody base |
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| Spanish | absintio, ajenjo, alosna |
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| Catalan | absinti, donzell |
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