chaparral sage

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   silvery-leaved California herb with purple flowers

   Synonymspurple sageSalvia leucophylla

   Broadersage

Questions about chaparral sage

What does chaparral sage mean?

chaparral sage means "silvery-leaved California herb with purple flowers".

What is another word for chaparral sage?

Close synonyms include purple sage, Salvia leucophylla. 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 chaparral sage a common word?

chaparral 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.