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# artemisia

noun (artemisia, artemisias); name (Artemisia)

«artemisia» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Artemisia is a group of plants with strong-smelling, often silvery leaves, including wormwood, mugwort, sagebrush and tarragon. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artemisia/#m1)
2. Sweet wormwood (Artemisia annua) is the plant from which the malaria medicine artemisinin is made. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artemisia/#m2)
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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artemisia/#m3)

### 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 →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artemisia/#x1)
- Tarragon is a kind of artemisia used in cooking. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artemisia/#x2)
- A medicine against malaria comes from sweet wormwood, an artemisia. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artemisia/#x3)
- Sagebrush covers the dry hills of the American West. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artemisia/#x4)
- Artemisia Gentileschi was a famous Italian painter. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artemisia/#x5)
- The garden had a border of grey artemisia. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artemisia/#x6)

### 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.

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «artemisia» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/A/artemisia/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«artemisia» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/artemisia.html) on Mova free.