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sage † 

• n. a bluish-gray shrubby plant of the genus Artemisia, as A. tridentata, of the arid regions of the West.

  • 1857  (1863)  Here we . . . met with the sage. . . .
  • 1859  (1958)  I climbed mountains and got covered with wood-ticks as I ploughed through the sage-brush and greasewood. . . .
  • 1953  [He] sat perfectly still . . . staring out across the foothills studded with sage and jackpine. . . .
  • 1963  South of Cariboo lies the Dry Belt, an area of stunted jack-pine, sagebrush, sand and cactus.