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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 rangelandsplay

  Familiarity information: SAND SAGE used as a noun is very rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


SAND SAGE (noun)


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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