GENUS ARTEMISIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Artemisia mean? 

• GENUS ARTEMISIA (noun)
  The noun GENUS ARTEMISIA has 1 sense:

1. usually aromatic shrubs or herbs of north temperate regions and South Africa and western South America: wormwood; sagebrush; mugwort; tarragon

  Familiarity information: GENUS ARTEMISIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS ARTEMISIA (noun)

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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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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("genus Artemisia" is a kind of...):

asterid dicot genus (genus of more or less advanced dicotyledonous herbs and some trees and shrubs)

Meronyms (members of "genus Artemisia"):

artemisia (any of various composite shrubs or herbs of the genus Artemisia having aromatic green or greyish foliage)

mugwort (any of several weedy composite plants of the genus Artemisia)

Artemisia abrotanum; southernwood (shrubby European wormwood naturalized in North America; sometimes used in brewing beer)

absinthe; Artemisia absinthium; common wormwood; lad's love; old man (aromatic herb of temperate Eurasia and North Africa having a bitter taste used in making the liqueur absinthe)

Artemisia annua; sweet wormwood (wormwood of southeastern Europe to Iran)

Artemisia californica; California sage; California sagebrush (low ashy-grey California shrub)

Artemisia campestris; field wormwood (European wormwood similar to common wormwood in its properties)

Artemisia filifolia; sand sage; silvery wormwood (silver-haired shrub of central and southern United States and Mexico; a troublesome weed on rangelands)

Artemisia frigida; prairie sagewort; wormwood sage (silky-leaved aromatic perennial of dry northern parts of the northern hemisphere; has tawny florets)

Artemis pontica; Roman wormwood (European wormwood; minor source of absinthe)

Artemis spinescens; bud brush; bud sagebrush (a perennial that is valuable as sheep forage in the United States)

Artemisia stelleriana; beach wormwood; dusty miller; old woman (herb with greyish leaves found along the east coast of North America; used as an ornamental plant)

Holonyms ("genus Artemisia" is a member of...):

aster family; Asteraceae; Compositae; family Asteraceae; family Compositae (plants with heads composed of many florets: aster; daisy; dandelion; goldenrod; marigold; lettuces; ragweed; sunflower; thistle; zinnia)