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Artemisia  n.  (Bot.) 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.






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... however, observe that "demonstration" is a strong term.—In his description of the Leucadian Promontory (of which we have a pleasing representation in the plate), the author remarks that it is "celebrated for the leap of Sappho, and the death of Artemisia." From this variety in the expression, a reader would hardly conceive that both the ladies perished in the same manner: in fact, the sentence is as proper as it would be to talk of the decapitation of Russell, ...
— Life of Lord Byron, Vol. 6 (of 6) - With his Letters and Journals • Thomas Moore

... of Pitt River. These data are beautifully and clearly expressed by a long (topographically) drawn note from an E flat clarionet. The sandy nature of the soil, sparsely dotted with bunches of cactus and artemisia, the extended view, flat and unbroken to the horizon, save by the rising smoke in the extreme verge, denoting the vicinity of a Pi Utah village, are represented by the bass drum. A few notes on the piccolo call attention to a solitary antelope picking up mescal beans in the foreground. The sun, ...
— The Wit and Humor of America, Volume V. (of X.) • Various



Words linked to "Artemisia" :   estragon, Artemisia maritima, Artemisia californica, Artemisia frigida, Artemisia annua, Artemisia stelleriana, tarragon, Artemisia cana, bush, Artemisia tridentata, genus Artemisia, Artemisia absinthium, Artemisia campestris, Artemisia ludoviciana, Artemisia abrotanum, Artemisia vulgaris



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