black sage

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   an aromatic plant with wooly leaves found in southern California and Mexico

   Synonymswooly blue curlsCalifornia romeroTrichostema lanatum

   Broaderblue curls

   Part ofTrichostema

Questions about black sage

What does black sage mean?

black sage means "an aromatic plant with wooly leaves found in southern California and Mexico".

What is another word for black sage?

Close synonyms include wooly blue curls, California romero, Trichostema lanatum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is black sage a common word?

black sage is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.