different between spiderwort vs mugwort

English

Etymology

spider +? wort

Noun

spiderwort (plural spiderworts)

1. A perennial plant of the Tradescantia genus, found in clumps in woodland and meadow.
   • 2010, Clare Vanderpool, Moon Over Manifest

     One morning she had me traipsing out at the crack of dawn for prickly poppy, toadflax, spiderwort, and skeleton weed. If that doesn't sound like the makings of a witch's brew, then I'm the queen of England.

Translations

See also

• Wandering Jew

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.

Derived terms

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.