different between mugwort vs undefined

English

Wikispecies

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.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?m??w??t/

Noun

mugwort (countable and uncountable, plural mugworts)

1. Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia native to Europe and Asia.
2. Artemisia vulgaris, traditionally used medicinally.
   • 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.

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Translations

See also

• absinthe, artemisia, sagebrush, tarragon, vermouth, wormwood

Middle English

Alternative forms

• mogwort, mogworte, mucgwurt, muggeworte, mugwourth, mugwurt, mugwyrt

Etymology

From Old English mucgwyrt; possibly equivalent to mydge +? wort.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?mu?wurt/

Noun

mugwort (uncountable)

1. wormwood, mugwort (Artemisia vulgaris)

Descendants

• English: mugwort
• Scots: muggart
  • ? Scots: muggins

References

• “mug-wort, n.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.

English

Etymology

un- +? defined

Adjective

undefined (not comparable)

1. Lacking a definition or value.
2. (mathematics, computing) That does not have a meaning and is thus not assigned an interpretation.

   The result of division by zero is undefined.

Synonyms

• (lacking a definition or value): indefinite, undefinable; see also Thesaurus:indistinct or Thesaurus:vague

Antonyms

• defined

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