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Waterleaf vs Mugwort - What's the difference?

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In botany|lang=en terms the difference between waterleaf and mugwort

is that waterleaf is (botany) any plant of , the waterleaf family while mugwort is (botany) any of several aromatic plants of the genus artemisia native to europe and asia.

As nouns the difference between waterleaf and mugwort

is that waterleaf is (botany) any plant of the genus while mugwort is (botany) any of several aromatic plants of the genus artemisia native to europe and asia.

waterleaf

English

(wikipedia waterleaf)

Alternative forms

*water-leaf

Noun

(Hydrophyllum) (Hydrophyllaceae) (Talinum fruticosum) (waterleaves)
  • (botany) Any plant of the genus .
  • (botany) Any plant of , the waterleaf family.
  • A tropical plant (), the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable.
  • (architecture) A leaf-shaped decoration used on the capitals of columns in late 12th-century Romanesque architecture
  • (paper technology) An absorbent unsized paper like blotters as opposed to slake-sized or hard sized papers.

    • Synonyms

    *(tropical plant the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable ): (cariru), (Ceylon spinach), (Florida spinach), (Lagos bologi), (potherb fameflower), (Philippine spinach), (Surinam purslane), sweetheart

    Derived terms

    * (ballhead waterleaf), (ball-headed waterleaf) * (blunt-leaf waterleaf), (bluntleaf waterleaf) * (vern, Brown's waterleaf) * (dwarf waterleaf) * (vern, Fendler's waterleaf) * (great waterleaf) * (largeleaf waterleaf) * (Pacific waterleaf) * (Virginia waterleaf) * (waterleaf capital) * (western waterleaf)

    Anagrams

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    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)