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单词 artemisia
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Definition of artemisia in English:

artemisia

noun ˌɑːtɪˈmɪzɪəˌärdəˈmēZH(ē)ə
  • An aromatic or bitter-tasting plant of a genus that includes wormwood, mugwort, and sagebrush. Several kinds are used in herbal medicine and many are cultivated for their feathery grey foliage.

    蒿属植物

    Genus Artemisia, family Compositae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • During an archaeological dig in the 1970s, instructions for treating malaria with an herb called wormwood, or artemisia, were found in a 2,000-year-old Chinese tomb.
    • Good foliage plants for fillers are low-growing artemisias, dusty miller, and golden, purple, or tricolor sage.
    • Silver-leafed artemisia varieties, lamb's ears and herbs, such as lavender, contribute grayish-silver foliage that are both handsome and aromatic.
    • Don't forget to factor white and blue into your planting scheme; both do a great job of cooling off and separating drifts of hot-colored plants, as do gray-foliaged plants such as santolina, artemisia, and dusty miller.
    • Plants with leaves adapted to coping in hotter climes, the likes of rosemary, lavender, artemisias and Convolvulus cneorum, will have to be planted in well-drained soils if they are not to suffer from waterlogging in wet winters.

Origin

Middle English: via Latin from Greek, 'wormwood', named after the goddess Artemis, to whom it was sacred.

Rhymes

Kirghizia, Tunisia

Definition of artemisia in US English:

artemisia

nounˌärdəˈmēZH(ē)ə
  • An aromatic or bitter-tasting plant of a genus that includes wormwood, mugwort, and sagebrush. Several kinds of artemisia are used in herbal medicine and many are cultivated for their feathery gray foliage.

    蒿属植物

    Genus Artemisia, family Compositae

    Example sentencesExamples
    • Don't forget to factor white and blue into your planting scheme; both do a great job of cooling off and separating drifts of hot-colored plants, as do gray-foliaged plants such as santolina, artemisia, and dusty miller.
    • Plants with leaves adapted to coping in hotter climes, the likes of rosemary, lavender, artemisias and Convolvulus cneorum, will have to be planted in well-drained soils if they are not to suffer from waterlogging in wet winters.
    • Silver-leafed artemisia varieties, lamb's ears and herbs, such as lavender, contribute grayish-silver foliage that are both handsome and aromatic.
    • Good foliage plants for fillers are low-growing artemisias, dusty miller, and golden, purple, or tricolor sage.
    • During an archaeological dig in the 1970s, instructions for treating malaria with an herb called wormwood, or artemisia, were found in a 2,000-year-old Chinese tomb.

Origin

Middle English: via Latin from Greek, ‘wormwood’, named after the goddess Artemis, to whom it was sacred.

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