Ăr'te-mĭs'ĭ-a, n.

n. [Lat. Artemisia, Gr. Ἀρτεμισία, Pr. artemezia, arsemisa, arcimiza, Fr. armoise.] (Bot.) A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort, southernwood, and wormwood. Of these the A. absinthium, or common wormwood, is well known. Loudon.