Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. tridentata, a shrub of arid regions of western North America, having silver-green leaves and large clusters of small white flower heads.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A collective name of various species of Artemisia which cover immense areas on the dry, often alkaline, plains and mountains of the western United States. They are dry, shrubby, and bushy plants with a hoary sagelike aspect, but without botanical affinity with the sage. The most characteristic species is A. tridentata, which grows from 1 to 6 and even 12 feet high, and is prodigiously abundant. A smaller species is A. trifida, and a dwarf, A. arbuscula. Also
sage-bush (perhaps applied more individually), wild sage, and sagewood.
Wiktionary
- n. Any of several North American aromatic shrubs or small trees, of the genus Artemisia, having silvery-grey, green leaves.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. A low irregular shrub (Artemisia tridentata), of the order Compositæ, covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of the American plains; -- called also
sagebush , andwild sage .
WordNet 3.0
- n. any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium
- n. any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium
Etymologies
- sage + brush, from resemblance in odor and appearance to Salvia officinalis. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The Setup Lundberg often hunts in sagebrush flats.”
“You may have to crawl to get into position, and if so, you'll find that the sagebrush is carpeted with small cacti, yuccas, rocks, and serpents.”
“Have you ever wondered what it looks like to lay down in short sagebrush and have semi-wild canids come hunting you down?”
“The chief vegetation, sometimes called sagebrush steppe, is made up of sagebrush or shadscale mixed with short grasses.”
“In uncultivated areas, moisture levels are generally high enough to support grasslands of bluebunch wheatgrass and Idaho fescue without associated sagebrush, which is more common in 10e.”
“After 46 years, it's finally official - the sagebrush is the official emblem of the state of Nevada.”
“United States senator in what was popularly known as the sagebrush rebellion, died Tuesday at his home in Jackson, game of the World Series playing out in the slop of a rainstorm.”
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“The Great Plains grasslands east of the Rockies have scattered trees and shrubs, such as sagebrush and rabbitbrush, and support all gradations of cover, from semi-desert to woodland.”
“There were violet leaves, geranium leaves, dandylion leaves, and a kind of sagebrush-like plant, very thin and branching like some common roadside weed.”
“Colorado has the conditions to support large fire activity this summer, including pine beetle-killed trees and plenty of ground fuels such as sagebrush and other shrubs.”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘sagebrush’.
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Brushes
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Flora
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Evocative smells
They remind me of a particular time, place, or activity
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Stately Plants
The flowers and trees of states and nations.
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Flowers/plants
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Trout Mask Replica
Lyrics from the Captain Beefheart album
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