meadow clary

1. 1.

   tall perennial Old World salvia with violet-blue flowers; found in open grasslands

   SynonymsSalvia pratensis

   Broadersage

Questions about meadow clary

What does meadow clary mean?

meadow clary means "tall perennial Old World salvia with violet-blue flowers; found in open grasslands".

What is another word for meadow clary?

Close synonyms include Salvia pratensis. 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 meadow clary a common word?

meadow clary 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.