Artemisia

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Artemisia \Ar`te*mi"si*a\ ([aum]rt[-e]"m[i^]zh"[i^]*[.a] or
     [aum]rt[-e]"m[i^]sh"[i^]*[.a]), n. [L. Artemisia, Gr.
     'Artemisi`a.] (Bot.)
     A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort,
     southernwood, and wormwood. Of these {Artemisia absinthium},
     or common wormwood, is well known, and {Artemisia tridentata}


     is the sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  artemisia
       n : any of various composite shrubs or herbs of the genus
           Artemisia having aromatic green or grayish foliage