mugwort
/ˈmʌɡwɝt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.78 in modern English
13
Scrabble Score
7
Letters
2
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Any member of the species Artemisia vulgaris of plants native to temperate Eurasia and north Africa, traditionally used medicinally.
Countable; Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "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."
- "Peony would keep away any kind of storms. Mugwort hung over doorways on Midsummer's Day, June 24, would keep off lightning, as St. John's-Wort would if gathered before sunrise on that day."
- "“I have eaten mugwort,” he told his familiar. “Soon I shall see down the well of time; our past lies there.”"
- "Take then mugwort and everlasting and boil these three in several kinds of milk until they become red."
Etymology
From Middle English mugwort, mugwyrt, mucgwurt, from Old English mucgwyrt, mucwyrt et al., from Proto-Germanic; probably corresponding to midge + wort. Cognate with regional Low German muggart, mugwurz.
Origin
Word Breakdown
- Root: mugwort, mucgwyrt, -
Regional Pronunciation
- American English: /ˈmʌɡwɝt/
- British English: /ˈmʌɡwɜːt/
Usage
Inflected Forms
Phrases
Artemisia argyi
used in traditional Chinese medicine
Artemisia douglasiana
native to western North America
Artemisia glacialis
Artemisia indica
Artemisia japonica
Artemisia norvegica