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.
... turned helplessly and drifted towards the boys. He was old, and his woollen gaberdine still reeked of the stinking artemisia of ... — Kim • Rudyard Kipling Read full book for free!