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- noun Plural form of
artemisia .
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Examples
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"artemisias" of our mother's gardens, although improved in size, form, and in range of color.
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They shared the land with brush, particularly artemisias like wormwood and sage.
The Plains of Passage Auel, Jean M. 1990
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Besides an infinite variety of others of the cactus family, there were yuccas, agaves and larreas; the fouquiera and koberlinia, long and thorny leafless rods; artemisias and the algarrobbas or mesquite bean-trees, another principal food of the Indians and valuable for cattle and horses.
Ranching, Sport and Travel Thomas Carson
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The hardy perennial kinds are small-flowered, late-blooming plants, known to many old people as "artemisias."
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Species occur in this group of plants from time to time that lack the ray-florets, as in the tansy (_Tanacetum vulgare_) and some _artemisias_.
Species and Varieties, Their Origin by Mutation Hugo de Vries 1891
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There were borders of artemisias, as they were called, that diffused a pungent fragrance.
A Little Girl in Old New York Amanda Minnie Douglas 1873
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With the exception of a short detention at a deep little stream called Goose creek, and some occasional rocky places, we had to-day a very good road; but the country has a barren appearance, sandy, and densely covered with the artemisias from the banks of the river to the foot of the mountains.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851
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Along the banks were canes, rosebushes, and clematis, with Purshia tridentata and artemisias on the upper bottom.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851
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There were some large artemisias; but the principal plants are chenopodiaceous shrubs.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851
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The air was filled with the turpentine scent of the various _artemisias_, which are now in bloom, and, numerous as they are, give much gayety to the landscape of the plains.
The Exploring Expedition to the Rocky Mountains, Oregon and California To which is Added a Description of the Physical Geography of California, with Recent Notices of the Gold Region from the Latest and Most Authentic Sources Brevet Col. J.C. Fremont 1851
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