rosemary : Idioms & Phrases

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apalachicola rosemary

  • noun small shrub of Apalachicola River area in southeastern United States having highly aromatic pinkish flowers; a threatened species
    Conradina glabra.
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bog rosemary

  • noun wiry evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of wet acidic areas in Arctic and Canada to northeastern United States
    Andromeda glaucophylla; moorwort.
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common bog rosemary

  • noun erect to procumbent evergreen shrub having pendent clusters of white or pink flowers; of sphagnum peat bogs and other wet acidic areas in northern Europe
    Andromeda polifolia; marsh andromeda.
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Marsh rosemary

  • noun any of various plants of the genus Limonium of temperate salt marshes having spikes of white or mauve flowers
    sea lavender; statice.
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  • (Bot.), a plant of the genus Statice (S. Limonium), common in salt marshes. Its root is powerfully astringent, and is sometimes used in medicine. Called also sea lavender.
Webster 1913

Rosemary pine

  • the loblolly pine. See under Loblolly.
Webster 1913

Wild rosemary

  • noun bog shrub of northern and central Europe and eastern Siberia to Korea and Japan
    Ledum palustre; marsh tea.
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  • (Bot.), the evergreen shrub Andromeda polifolia. See Marsh rosemary, under Rosemary.
Webster 1913