Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Artemisia \Ar`te*mi"si*a\ ([aum]rt[-e]"m[i^]zh"[i^]*[.a] or
   [aum]rt[-e]"m[i^]sh"[i^]*[.a]), n. [L. Artemisia, Gr.
   'Artemisi`a.] (Bot.)
   A genus of plants including the plants called mugwort,
   southernwood, and wormwood. Of these {A. absinthium}, or
   common wormwood, is well known, and {A. tridentata} is the
   sage brush of the Rocky Mountain region.