MUGWORT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does mugwort mean? 

• MUGWORT (noun)
  The noun MUGWORT has 1 sense:

1. any of several weedy composite plants of the genus Artemisia

  Familiarity information: MUGWORT used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• MUGWORT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of several weedy composite plants of the genus Artemisia

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("mugwort" is a kind of...):

wormwood (any of several low composite herbs of the genera Artemisia or Seriphidium)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "mugwort"):

Artemisia gnaphalodes; Artemisia ludoviciana; cudweed; prairie sage; western mugwort; white sage (perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States)

Artemisia vulgaris; common mugwort (European tufted aromatic perennial herb having hairy red or purple stems and dark green leaves downy white below and red-brown florets)

Holonyms ("mugwort" is a member of...):

genus Artemisia (usually aromatic shrubs or herbs of north temperate regions and South Africa and western South America: wormwood; sagebrush; mugwort; tarragon)