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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.
A plant of the genus Artemisia.

Definition 2024


mugwort

mugwort

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mugwort (plural mugworts)

  1. Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Europe and Asia.
  2. 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.

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