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Definition of Seriphidium
1. Noun. Woody plants grown chiefly for their silver or grey and often aromatic foliage; formerly included in the genus Artemisia.
Generic synonyms: Asterid Dicot Genus
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Member holonyms: Artemisia Cana, Gray Sage, Grey Sage, Seriphidium Canum, Silver Sage, Silver Sagebrush, Artemisia Maritima, Sea Wormwood, Seriphidium Maritimum, Artemisia Tridentata, Big Sagebrush, Blue Sage, Seriphidium Tridentatum
Lexicographical Neighbors of Seriphidium
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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