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SILVERY WORMWOOD
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I. (noun)
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Meaning:
Silver-haired shrub of central and southern United States and Mexico; a troublesome weed on rangelands
Synonyms:
Artemisia filifolia; sand sage; silvery wormwood
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("silvery wormwood" is a kind of...):
sage brush; sagebrush (any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium)
Holonyms ("silvery wormwood" is a member of...):
genus Artemisia (usually aromatic shrubs or herbs of north temperate regions and South Africa and western South America: wormwood; sagebrush; mugwort; tarragon)