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mugwort | x |

As a noun mugwort

is (botany) any of several aromatic plants of the genus artemisia native to europe and asia.

As a letter x is

the twenty-fourth letter of the.

As a symbol x is

voiceless velar fricative.

mugwort

English

(wikipedia mugwort) (Artemisia)

Noun

(en noun)
  • (botany) Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Europe and Asia.
  • , also (common wormwood), used as a herb in cooking.
  • * 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.

    Synonyms

    * absinthe, artemisia, wormwood

    Derived terms

    * - (Chinese mugwort), used in traditional Chinese medicine * - (Douglas mugwort), native to western North America * - (alpine mugwort) * - (Japanese mugwort) * - (Oriental mugwort) * - (Norwegian mugwort) * - (Japanese mugwort) ("yomogi"), (Korean mugwort) ("ssuk"), used as a culinary herb and in traditional Chinese medicine. * - (hoary mugwort) * - (Chinese mugwort)

    x

    Translingual

    {{Basic Latin character info, previous=W, next=Y, image= (wikipedia X)

    Etymology 1

    Letter

  • The twenty-fourth letter of the .
    • See also
    (Latn-script)

    Cardinal number

    (mul-number)
  • The number 10.

    • Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
  • A symbol of the IPA, representing a voiceless uvular fricative.
  • strike

    • Etymology 2

    Possibly from skull and crossbones

    Symbol

    (mul-symbol)
    • Derived terms
    * XXX

    See also

    {{Letter , page=X , NATO=X-ray , Morse=–··– , Character=X , Braille=? }} Image:Latin X.png, Capital and lowercase versions of X , in normal and italic type Image:Fraktur letter X.png, Uppercase and lowercase X in Fraktur Roman numerals ----