Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. vulgaris, native to Eurasia and sometimes used as a condiment.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The plant Artemisia vulgaris; also, sometimes, A. Absinthium. In the United States the western mugwort is A. Ludoviciana, the leaves, as in A. vulgaris, white-tomentose beneath.
Wiktionary
- n. botany Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Europe and Asia.
- n. Artemisia vulgaris, also common wormwood, used as a herb in cooking.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A somewhat aromatic composite weed (Artemisia vulgaris), at one time used medicinally; -- called also
motherwort .
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of several weedy composite plants of the genus Artemisia
Etymologies
- Old English mucgwyrt, mucwyrt et al., from Proto-Germanic; probably corresponding to midge + wort. Cognate with regional Low German muggart, mugwurz. (Wiktionary)
- Middle English mugwort, mugwyrt, from Old English mucgwyrt : mucg-, variant of mycg, midge + wyrt, plant; see wort1. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The Katzer pages and this botanical log confirm the similar Russian names: mugwort is Чернобыльник ( "Chernobylnik") or botanically Полынь Обыкновенная (Common Polyn);, and according to the southernwood page, wormwood aka Artemisia absinthium is Полынь горькая ( "Bitter Polyn" again).”
“I learned that moxa is a kind of herb, also called mugwort, well known in the ancient world for its medicinal properties.”
“The Northern Europeans have long brewed gruit and sahti with spices such as mugwort and heather and yarrow and juniper and caraway and coriander.”
“Seriously, I'll have to check what a "mugwort" is.”
“I became Ai "mugwort" not as bad as it sounds, the Chinese honor mugwort more than we do.”
“So it is that ai 艾, which relates you to modern writer Ai Qing 艾情, aka Artemisius Affectus I had mistakenly assumed that 'mugwort' referred to the 'mo' part.”
“Note—Peg told me that several days ago the queen miscarried; they eased her pain with mugwort and foxglove, and she is now recovering.”
“After drawing breath, he was far from finished, going on to discover mugwort, wild camomile and ground elder, among others.”
“My therapist explained that moxibustion is a traditional Chinese medicine technique that involves the burning of mugwort, a small, spongy herb, to facilitate healing.”
“The term is derived from the Japanese "mogusa" meaning herb mugwort and the Latin "bustion" meaning burning.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘mugwort’.
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Ponderable Plant Names
List of plant names (common or scientific) that go trippingly off the tongue, are fun to contemplate, expose the wit of the namer, or just plain befuddle.
tongueshape mudmi..., glandular maiden ..., jeweled maiden fern, stately maiden fern, hairy maiden fern, downy maiden fern, widespread maiden..., turkey tangle fog..., yankeeweed, clitoria fragrans, clitoria mariana, tall tumblemustard and 261 more...
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Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11250 more...
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Worts and all
I have in mind the worts associated with a green thumb rather than a green beer - but as you can see by the name, I'll accept anything you have to offer.
butterwort, spiderwort, quillwort, woundwort, nipplewort, bellwort, liverwort, milkwort, water pennywort, navelwort, toothwort, wort and 128 more...
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The Worts
Maybe I'm just hallucinating that there isn't a list for this botanical category yet...
mugwort, starwort, stitchwort, woundwort, pondwort, sweetwort, liverwort, spleenwort, toothwort, lungwort, adderwort, worrywort and 9 more...
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The Worm List
List of all things wormy.
hookworm, earworm, roundworm, corn earworm, bollworm, pinworm, whipworm, earthworm, heartworm, polychete, teredo, lugworm and 54 more...
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Herbs: How Fragrant, How Delicious
Delicious scents in an edible nibble.
zedoary, zahtar, yarrow, wormwood, wasabi, verbena, valerian, thyme, Thai basil, tarragon, sweet basil, sorrel and 59 more...
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the first list
an immense, grandiloquent list that loads like a thousand years sentence in stone. new words are in the other lists.
ridiculous, brummagem, predicament, sanctimonious, vapid, eschew, admonish, auspicious, capitulation, enumerate, lachrymose, tenet and 1648 more...
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Fun Food Names
spaghettini, mutton, bratwurst, zabaglione, sweet potato pie, succotash, slumgullion, bouillabaisse, hush puppy, gumbo, jambalaya, mahimahi and 126 more...
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Words Covered in Faery Dust (M)
words that evoke magic, mystery, mayhem, magnificence or anything else that glimmers in the grass
mace, macintosh, madras, magenta, magic 8 ball, magma, mahogany, maiden, mail, mainsail, maize, malachite and 169 more...
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kirstenio's Words
lascivious, transcendant, phantasmagoria, salacious, beatitude, solitude, pseudo, pretentious, inanity, sublimation, clobber, obscurity and 186 more...
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katiad's Words
exquisite, obnoxious, noxious, extravaganza, whirlwind, whirling, wild, spinster, existential, chaos, zephyr, blasphemy and 310 more...
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the gardener and apothecary's
bryony, chamomile, frond, sweet bay, laurel, monkshood, henbane, hemlock, parsley, rosemary, thyme, lady's mantle and 140 more...
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Bedaphors
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sleepyhypnagogic, chronotherapy, clinomania, condorm, librocubicularist, matutolypea, soporific, supine, decubitus, pandiculation, oscitancy, slugabed and 169 more...
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a modern herbal
mugwort, horehound, hellebore, chamomile, comfrey, rosemary, calendula, rose, lavender, lamb's quarters, gamboge, mustard and 108 more...
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Korean Culinary Surprises
Unexpected or unexpectedly delicious Korean food items.
blood, millet, bracken, mugwort, cinnamon juice, tartare de cheval, bean flour, hot fish gravy, acorn jelly, grain tea, squid n peanuts
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wordie
morbid, ostentatious, enigma, heppelwhite, widdershins, mabel, caligari, maple, sebald, daedalus, salmonella, juggernaut and 62 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for mugwort.
ruzuzu See comments on mucgwyrt.
Also see Chernobyl. Apr 11, 2012
bilby A 'weedy composite' plant with a name like mugwort ... I bet this word gets picked on and bullied at school :-( Nov 1, 2008
reesetee I'm not going to ask why you know that, c_b. May 14, 2008
chained_bear Mugwort works for that purpose.
(but it tastes like sh*t...) May 14, 2008
whichbe Mugwort is used to promote lucid dreaming. May 13, 2008