Definition of "beach wormwood" []

• An Asian perennial seacoast plant (Artemisia stelleriana) in the composite family, densely covered with grayish-white felty hairs and having pinnately lobed leaves and elongate clusters of heads with tiny yellow flowers. (noun)

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