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artemisia
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artemisia, n. [L. Artemisia, Gr. 'Artemisi`a.].
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]
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