English word senses marked with lifeform category "Artemisias"
Parent categories: Anthemideae tribe plants, Herbs, Composites, Plants, Spices and herbs, Asterales order plants, Lifeforms, Foods, Life, Eating, Food and drink, Nature, Human behaviour, Human
Total 53 word senses
- African wormwood (Noun) An aromatic African plant, with many traditional medicinal uses, Artemisia afra
- California mugwort (Noun) A fragrant perennial herb resembling mugwort native to western North America from Washington to northern Baja California, Artemisia douglasiana
- Chinese mugwort (Noun) A herbaceous perennial plant from one of two species, Artemisia argyi or Artemisia verlotiorum, used in traditional Chinese medicine.
- Great Basin sagebrush (Noun) A woody, pungently aromatic low shrub, Artemisia tridentata, very common in the Great Basin and other arid regions of western North America.
- Roman wormwood (Noun) A smaller relative of wormwood, Artemisia pontica
- abrotanum (Noun) A bushy wormwood from Europe, sometimes used in the brewing of beer, southernwood, Artemisia abrotanum.
- absinthe (Noun) The herb absinthium Artemisia absinthium (grande wormwood); essence of wormwood.
- absinthin (Noun) The principal compound found in wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), having a bitter taste: C₁₅H₂₀O₄
- absinthium (Noun) Common wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), an intensely bitter herb used in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic.
- annual wormwood (Noun) An Asian aromatic herb, widely naturalized, Artemisia annua, the source of the antimalarial drug artemisinin.
- artemisia (Noun) Any of many aromatic flowering plants of the genus Artemisia, including wormwood, sagebrush, and tarragon, often used as traditional medicine, oral contraceptive and flavoring.
- big sagebrush (Noun) Great Basin sagebrush (Artemisia tridentata)
- bitterweed (Noun) Any plant in the genus Ambrosia, especially Ambrosia artemisiifolia (common ragweed).
- bitterweed (Noun) The plant Helenium amarum (yellow sneezeweed).
- bitterweed (Noun) Parthenium hysterophorus (false ragweed)
- bitterweed (Noun) Artemisia tripartita subsp. tripartita (syn. Artemisia trifida; threetip sagebrush)
- black sage (Noun) Certain sagebrushes (Artemisia arbuscula and Artemisia tridentata)
- dragon's wort (Noun) A perennial herb, tarragon, Artemisia dracunculus.
- dusty miller (Noun) Any of several species of plants with leaves of a dusty appearance: Centaurea cineraria, Jacobaea maritima, Artemisia stelleriana, Spyridium parvifolium, and Silene coronaria, syn. Lychnis coronaria.
- estragon (Noun) tarragon
- grande wormwood (Noun) The herb wormwood (Artemisia absinthium), which is used in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic.
- hyssop (Noun) Any of several aromatic bushy herbs, of the genus Hyssopus, native to Southern Europe and once used medicinally.
- hyssop (Noun) Any of several similar plants:; Any of several similar plants
- hyssop (Noun) Any of several similar plants:; Agastache foeniculum, blue giant hyssop.
- hyssop (Noun) The sagebrush (Artemisia spp.).
- hyssop (Noun) A plant used used for sprinkling of blood or water in purification rituals and at Passover, Origanum syriacum.
- jaceosidin (Noun) A pharmacologically flavone found in Artemisia species.
- motherwort (Noun) Artemisia vulgaris.
- moxa (Noun) A woolly material obtained from the dried leaves of an Asian species of mugwort, such as Artemisia argyi, as used in moxibustion.
- mugwort (Noun) Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Europe and Asia.
- old man (Noun) A husband, or male significant other, irrespective of age.
- old man (Noun) One's male employer, irrespective of age.
- old man (Noun) A unit's commanding officer, or the commander of a naval vessel, irrespective of age.
- old man (Noun) Term of address for a male friend, irrespective of age.
- old man (Noun) The state of human nature without the spiritual transformation brought about by redemption through Jesus Christ.
- old woman (Noun) The plant sea wormwood.
- sage (Noun) Any plant in the genus Salvia.
- sagebrush (Noun) Any of several North American aromatic shrubs of the genus Artemisia, having silvery-grey, green leaves.
- sagewort (Noun) Any of a number of perennial herbs in the genus Artemisia which have the aromatic gray or silver foliage of the sagebrushes, but are not shrubby enough to be termed brush.
- santonica (Noun) An Asian plant (Seriphidium cinum, syn. Artemisia cina), related to wormwood, which has been used since ancient times as a vermifuge due to its santonin content.
- santonin (Noun) An anthelmintic found in santonica and related plants.
- scoparone (Noun) An organic compound found in the Chinese herb Artemisia scoparia.
- sea wormwood (Noun) Artemisia maritima, a European wormwood.
- semen contra (Noun) A strong aromatic bitter drug, imported from Aleppo and Barbary, said to consist of the leaves, peduncles, and unexpanded flowers of various species of Artemisia; wormseed.
- semencine (Noun) santonica
- southernwood (Noun) An aromatic shrub, Artemisia abrotanum, related to wormwood.
- southernwort (Noun) Synonym of southernwood
- sweet Annie (Noun) A fragrant Asian herb, widely naturalized, Artemisia annua, the source of the antimalarial drug artemisinin
- sweet wormwood (Noun) A fragrant Asian herb, Artemisia annua, widely naturalized, the source of the antimalarial drug artemisinin
- tarragon (Noun) A perennial herb, the wormwood species Artemisia dracunculus, from Europe and parts of Asia.
- threetip sagebrush (Noun) Artemisia tripartita, a sagebrush plant.
- wormseed (Noun) Santonica or Levant wormseed (Seriphidium cinum, syn. Artemisia cina), an Asian plant related to wormwood.
- wormwood (Noun) An intensely bitter herb (Artemisia absinthium and similar plants in genus Artemisia) used in medicine, in the production of absinthe and vermouth, and as a tonic.
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