black sage

black sage
noun
an aromatic plant with wooly leaves found in southern California and Mexico
Hypernyms: ↑blue curls
Member Holonyms: ↑Trichostema, ↑genus Trichostema

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noun
1. : a woolly-leaved plant (Trichostema lanatum) native to southern California and Mexico
2. : any of several plants of the genus Cordia; especially : an introduced weed (C. macrostachya) that is a serious pest in sugar plantations on Mauritius
3. : a common highly inflammable California sage (Salvia mellifera) that is the chief source of sage honey
4. : either of two sagebrushes (Artemisia arbuscula and A. tridentata) of the western United States
5. : a California herb (Audibertia stachyoides)

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a shrubby Californian plant, Salvia mellifera, of the mint family, having an interrupted spike of lavender-blue or white flowers.
[1875-80, Amer.]

Useful english dictionary. 2012.

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