sage : Idioms & Phrases

• noun an aromatic plant with wooly leaves found in southern California and Mexico
  California romero; Trichostema lanatum; wooly blue curls.
  

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• noun sage of western North America to Central America having violet-blue flowers; widespread in cultivation
  Salvia lancifolia; Salvia reflexa.
  
• noun Texas sage having intensely blue flowers
  Salvia farinacea; blue sage.
  
• noun blue-flowered sage of dry prairies of the eastern United States
  Salvia azurea.
  
• noun aromatic shrub of arid regions of western North America having hoary leaves
  Seriphidium tridentatum; Artemisia tridentata; big sagebrush.
  

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• noun low ashy-grey California shrub
  California sagebrush; Artemisia californica.
  

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• noun silvery-leaved California herb with purple flowers
  chaparral sage; Salvia leucophylla.
  

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• noun stout Mediterranean sage with white or pink or violet flowers; yields oil used as a flavoring and in perfumery
  Salvia clarea.
  
• noun fresh leaves used in omelets and fritters and with lamb
  

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• noun shrubby plant with aromatic greyish-green leaves used as a cooking herb
  Salvia officinalis; ramona.
  

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• noun low much-branched perennial of western United States having silvery leaves; an important browse and shelter plant
  silver sagebrush; gray sage; Seriphidium canum; grey sage; Artemisia cana.
  

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• noun low much-branched perennial of western United States having silvery leaves; an important browse and shelter plant
  silver sagebrush; gray sage; Seriphidium canum; grey sage; Artemisia cana.
  

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• noun a spreading subshrub of Mediterranean regions cultivated for dense axillary whorls of purple or yellow flowers
  Phlomis fruticosa.
  

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• (Bot.), a perennial herb of the Mint family (Phlomis tuberosa).

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• (Bot.), a blue-flowered species of salvia (S. pratensis) growing in meadows in Europe.

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• noun Texas sage having intensely blue flowers
  Salvia farinacea; blue sage.
  

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• noun California erect and sparsely branched perennial
  Salvia spathacea.
  
• noun California plant with woolly stems and leaves and large white flowers
  Lepechinia calycina; Sphacele calycina.
  

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• noun perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States
  Artemisia ludoviciana; western mugwort; prairie sage; cudweed; Artemisia gnaphalodes.
  

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• noun silvery-leaved California herb with purple flowers
  chaparral sage; Salvia leucophylla.
  

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• noun any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium
  sagebrush.
  

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• cheese flavored with sage, and colored green by the juice of leaves of spanish and other plants which are added to the milk.

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• (Zoöl.), the male of the sage grouse; in a more general sense, the specific name of the sage grouse.

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• noun the color of sage leaves
  

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• of a dull grayish green color, like the leaves of garden sage.

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• noun large grouse of sagebrush regions of North America
  Centrocercus urophasianus; sage grouse.
  

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• (Zoöl.), a very large American grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), native of the dry sagebrush plains of Western North America. Called also cock of the plains. The male is called sage cock, and the female sage hen.

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• (Zoöl.), a species of hare (Lepus Nuttalli, ∨ artemisia) which inhabits the regions of Western North America and lives among sagebrush. By recent writers it is considered to be merely a variety of the common cottontail, or wood rabbit.

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• noun large grouse of sagebrush regions of North America
  Centrocercus urophasianus; sage grouse.
  

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• (Zoöl.), the female of the sage grouse.

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• (Zoöl.), a small sparrow (Amphispiza Belli, var Nevadensis) which inhabits the dry plains of the Rocky Mountain region, living among sagebrush.

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• (Zoöl.), a singing bird (Oroscoptes montanus) which inhabits the sagebrush plains of Western North America.

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• noun willow shrub of dry places in the eastern United States having long narrow leaves canescent beneath
  dwarf gray willow; dwarf grey willow; Salix tristis.
  
• noun North American shrub with whitish canescent leaves
  Salix candida; hoary willow.
  

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• (Bot.), a species of willow (Salix tristis) forming a low bush with nearly sessile grayish green leaves.

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• adjective satellite of the grey-green color of sage leaves
  sage.
  

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• noun silver-haired shrub of central and southern United States and Mexico; a troublesome weed on rangelands
  silvery wormwood; Artemisia filifolia.
  

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• noun low much-branched perennial of western United States having silvery leaves; an important browse and shelter plant
  silver sagebrush; gray sage; Seriphidium canum; grey sage; Artemisia cana.
  

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• noun Eurasian sage with blue flowers and foliage like verbena; naturalized in United States
  vervain sage; Salvia verbenaca; wild clary.
  

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• noun perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States
  Artemisia ludoviciana; western mugwort; prairie sage; cudweed; Artemisia gnaphalodes.
  

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• (Bot.), a white, woolly undershrub (Eurotia lanata) of Western North America; called also winter fat.

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• noun Eurasian sage with blue flowers and foliage like verbena; naturalized in United States
  vervain sage; Salvia verbenaca; wild clary.
  

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• . (Bot.) See Sagebrush.

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• noun European germander with one-sided racemes of yellow flowers; naturalized in North America
  Teucrium scorodonia.
  
• noun subshrub with serrate leaves and cream-colored to pink or purple flowers in spikelike racemes; North America
  American germander; Teucrium canadense.
  

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• (Bot.), a name given to several labiate plants of the genus Teucrium. See Germander.

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• noun silky-leaved aromatic perennial of dry northern parts of the northern hemisphere; has tawny florets
  Artemisia frigida; prairie sagewort.
  

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