SALVIA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does salvia mean? 

• SALVIA (noun)
  The noun SALVIA has 1 sense:

1. any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb

  Familiarity information: SALVIA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SALVIA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

sage; salvia

Hypernyms ("salvia" is a kind of...):

herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "salvia"):

blue sage; Salvia azurea (blue-flowered sage of dry prairies of the eastern United States)

clary sage; Salvia clarea (stout Mediterranean sage with white or pink or violet flowers; yields oil used as a flavoring and in perfumery)

blue sage; mealy sage; Salvia farinacea (Texas sage having intensely blue flowers)

blue sage; Salvia lancifolia; Salvia reflexa (sage of western North America to Central America having violet-blue flowers; widespread in cultivation)

chaparral sage; purple sage; Salvia leucophylla (silvery-leaved California herb with purple flowers)

cancer weed; cancerweed; Salvia lyrata (sage of eastern United States)

common sage; ramona; Salvia officinalis (shrubby plant with aromatic greyish-green leaves used as a cooking herb)

meadow clary; Salvia pratensis (tall perennial Old World salvia with violet-blue flowers; found in open grasslands)

clary; Salvia sclarea (aromatic herb of southern Europe; cultivated in Great Britain as a potherb and widely as an ornamental)

pitcher sage; Salvia spathacea (California erect and sparsely branched perennial)

Mexican mint; Salvia divinorum (an herb from Oaxaca that has a powerful hallucinogenic effect; the active ingredient is salvinorin)

Salvia verbenaca; vervain sage; wild clary; wild sage (Eurasian sage with blue flowers and foliage like verbena; naturalized in United States)

Holonyms ("salvia" is a member of...):

genus Salvia (large genus of shrubs and subshrubs of the mint family varying greatly in habit: sage)