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SAND SAGE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does sand sage mean?
• SAND SAGE (noun)
The noun SAND SAGE has 1 sense:
1. silver-haired shrub of central and southern United States and Mexico; a troublesome weed on rangelands
Familiarity information: SAND SAGE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Silver-haired shrub of central and southern United States and Mexico; a troublesome weed on rangelands
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Artemisia filifolia; sand sage; silvery wormwood
Hypernyms ("sand sage" is a kind of...):
sage brush; sagebrush (any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium)
Holonyms ("sand sage" is a member of...):
genus Artemisia (usually aromatic shrubs or herbs of north temperate regions and South Africa and western South America: wormwood; sagebrush; mugwort; tarragon)
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