different between waterleaf vs mugwort

English

Alternative forms

• water-leaf

Etymology

water +? leaf

Noun

waterleaf (plural waterleafs or waterleaves)

1. (botany) Any plant of the genus Hydrophyllum.
2. (botany) Any plant of Hydrophyllaceae, the waterleaf family.
3. A tropical plant (Talinum fruticosum), the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable.
4. (architecture) A leaf-shaped decoration used on the capitals of columns in late 12th-century Romanesque architecture
5. (paper technology) An absorbent unsized paper like blotters as opposed to slake-sized or hard sized papers.

Synonyms

• (tropical plant the leaves of which are eaten as a vegetable): cariru, Ceylon spinach, Florida spinach, Lagos bologi, potherb fameflower, Philippine spinach, Surinam purslane, sweetheart

Derived terms

• ballhead waterleaf, ball-headed waterleaf
• blunt-leaf waterleaf, bluntleaf waterleaf
• Brown's waterleaf
• dwarf waterleaf
• Fendler's waterleaf
• great waterleaf
• largeleaf waterleaf
• Pacific waterleaf
• Virginia waterleaf
• waterleaf capital
• western waterleaf

Anagrams

• water flea, waterflea

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.