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Webster 1913 Edition
Mugwort
Mug′wortˊ
,Noun.
[AS.
mucgwyrt
. Cf. Midge
.] (Bot.)
A somewhat aromatic composite weed (
Artemisia vulgaris
), at one time used medicinally; – called also motherwort
. Webster 1828 Edition
Mugwort
MUG'WORT
,Noun.
Definition 2024
mugwort
mugwort
English
Noun
mugwort (plural mugworts)
- Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Europe and Asia.
- Artemisia vulgaris, traditionally used medicinally.
- 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 197:
- Mugwort is with good success put among other herbs that are boiled, for women to sit over the hot decoction to draw down their courses, to help the delivery of the birth and expel the afterbirth, as also for the obstructions and inflammations of the mother.
- 1653, Nicholas Culpeper, The English Physician Enlarged, Folio Society 2007, p. 197:
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any of several artemisias
Artemisia vulgaris
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