artemisia

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The silver tones of eryngium and artemisia are a perfect complement to this deep color, and the rudbeckia (as ubiquitous as it is) give a blast of color.

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  1. noun Any of various aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia in the composite family, having green or grayish foliage and usually numerous small discoid flower heads and including the mugwort, sagebrush, tarragon, and wormweed.

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  • It was also possible to strike them with a stick, or burn artemisia, a Sechuan custom that I-Li practised. —  THE YEARS OF RICE AND SALT - Kim Stanley Robinson
  • At the heart is an aromatic exhale of geranium, sage and artemisia. —  PlanetMustang.com
  • The silver tones of eryngium and artemisia are a perfect complement to this deep color, and the rudbeckia (as ubiquitous as it is) give a blast of color. —  SouthCoastToday.com Latest Headlines
  • Chemicals recovered from the pottery indicate that in addition to wine there were savory, blue tansy and artemisia - a member of the wormwood family - present. —  PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories
  • The artemisia was not in sufficient plenty to make an inclosure with, and it would have been hopeless to have attempted such a thing; as they might have spent days without trapping a single hare. —  The Hunters' Feast Conversations Around the Camp Fire
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  1. Middle English artemesie, mugwort, from Old French, from Latin artemisia, from Greek, wormwood, after Artemis (to whom it was sacred).
 

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