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Artemisia

noun

Any of various composite shrubs or herbs of the genus Artemisia having aromatic green or greyish foliage.

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"Artemisia" Quotes from Famous Books

... artemisia or absinthe whose wood burns like holm-oak. (Unexplored Syria ii. 43.) See vol. ii. 24 ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 6 • Richard F. Burton

... now used to describe any large or distinguished tomb, comes from the tomb built for Mausolus, king of Caria (in Greek Asia Minor), by his widow, Artemisia, in 353 B.C. The tomb itself, which rises to a height of over one hundred and twelve feet, is now to be ...

— Stories That Words Tell Us • Elizabeth O'Neill

... was King of Caria, a country lying on the AEgean Sea in Asia Minor. Its chief town was Helicarnassus. Mausolus died about 353 B.C. His sister-wife, Artemisia, erected above his body the famous tomb named after him the Mausoleum, which was one of the "seven wonders ...

— The Best of the World's Classics, Restricted to prose. Volume I (of X) - Greece • Various

... because he had no other child but this; and it was his wont every night not to sleep, save after placing his arm under his son's neck. So he passed that night in trouble and unease on the Prince 's account, tossing from side to side, as he were laid on coals of Artemisia-wood[FN235]: for he was overcome with doubts and fears and sleep visited him not all that livelong night; but his eyes ran over with tears and he ...

— The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, Volume 3 • Richard F. Burton

... Monterey cypresses. Grey-green artemisia is between the columns. Ten thousand periwinkles are on the banks. Five thousand Spanish iris. Many Japanese iris. California incense shrub. Yellow primroses. One thousand white callas. One thousand yellow callas. One thousand California violets. The ...

— Palaces and Courts of the Exposition • Juliet James

... Emperor; being too humble to draw near to his Majesty he has waited for this festival, hoping that an opportunity might present itself. He explains that with this bow, and with certain arrows made of the Artemisia, the heavenly gods pacified the world. On being asked to show his bow, he refuses; it is a mystic protector of the country, which in old days was overshadowed by the mulberry-tree. The peace which prevails ...

— Tales of Old Japan • Algernon Bertram Freeman-Mitford

Words linked to "Artemisia" : shrub, estragon, tarragon, bush, Artemisia gnaphalodes