Definition of Seriphidium

1. Noun. Woody plants grown chiefly for their silver or grey and often aromatic foliage; formerly included in the genus Artemisia.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Seriphidium

Sergent's white line
Sergey
Sergipe
Sergius
Seri
Sericocarpus
Serie A
Serie B
Seriland
Serinus
Serinus canaria
Seriola
Seriola dorsalis
Seriola grandis
Seriola zonata
Seriphidium (current term)
Seriphidium canum
Seriphidium maritimum
Seriphidium tridentatum
Seriphus
Seriphus politus
Seris
Serkin
Serkland
Sermon on the Mount
Serowe
Serpasil
Serpens
Serpens Caput
Serpens Cauda

Literary usage of Seriphidium

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Botany by Geological Survey of California, William Henry Brewer, Sereno Watson, Asa Gray (1880)
"Seriphidium, Besser. The N. American species of this section are the true Sayc-bushes or Sage-brushes of the interior arid region. ..."

2. Pharmacographia; a History of the Principal Drugs of Vegetable Origin, Met by Friedrich August Flückiger, Daniel Hanburgy (1879)
"Artemisia! of the section Seriphidium assume great diversity of form:3 they have been the object of attentive study on the part of the Russian botanists ..."

3. The Vegetable Materia Medica of Western India by William Dymock (1885)
"Artemisia; of the section Seriphidium assume great diversity of form ; they have been the object of attentive study on the part of the Russian botanists, ..."

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