purple sage

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   silvery-leaved California herb with purple flowers

   Synonymschaparral sageSalvia leucophylla

   Broadersage

Questions about purple sage

What does purple sage mean?

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

What is another word for purple sage?

Close synonyms include chaparral 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 purple sage a common word?

purple 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.