white sage

white sage

noun
1.
Also called greasewood. a shrubby plant, Salvia apiana, of the mint family, native to southern California, having white, hairy foliage and spikes of white or pale lavender flowers.
2.
an aromatic, composite plant, Artemisia ludoviciana, of western North America, having leaves with a downy white undersurface.

Origin:
1865–70, Americanism
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White sage is always a great word to know.
So is interrobang. Does it mean:
a stew of meat, vegetables, potatoes, etc.
a printed punctuation mark (‽), available only in some typefaces, designed to combine the question mark (?) and the exclamation point (!), indicating a mixture of query and interjection, as after a rhetorical question.
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white sage

noun
perennial cottony-white herb of southwestern United States [syn: western mugwort
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