artemisia

«artemisia» in Mova's school dictionary: a group of plants with strong-smelling, often silvery… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

part of speech

noun (artemisia, artemisias); name (Artemisia)

meaning for a pupil

1) Artemisia is a group of plants with strong-smelling, often silvery leaves, including wormwood, mugwort, sagebrush and tarragon. tree →

2) Sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua) is the plant from which the malaria medicine artemisinin is made. tree →

3) (a name) Artemisia is a woman's name, for example Artemisia Gentileschi, an Italian painter of the 1600s, and Artemisia, an ancient queen of Caria. tree →

sense in the lessons

Used in science (plants and medicine; Tu Youyou won a Nobel Prize in 2015 for discovering artemisinin), gardening and art history.

examples

• Artemisia plants have silvery, scented leaves. tree →
• Tarragon is a kind of artemisia used in cooking. tree →
• A medicine against malaria comes from sweet wormwood, an artemisia. tree →
• Sagebrush covers the dry hills of the American West. tree →
• Artemisia Gentileschi was a famous Italian painter. tree →
• The garden had a border of grey artemisia. tree →

note

Pronounced ar-tih-MEE-zee-uh or ar-tih-MIZ-ee-uh. Named after the Greek goddess Artemis. As a genus name it is capitalised: Artemisia. Do not take herbal plants as medicine without a doctor.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «artemisia» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.