salvia lyrata

1. 1.

   sage of eastern United States

   Synonymscancerweedcancer weed

   Broadersage

Questions about salvia lyrata

What does salvia lyrata mean?

salvia lyrata means "sage of eastern United States".

What is another word for salvia lyrata?

Close synonyms include cancerweed, cancer weed. 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 salvia lyrata a common word?

salvia lyrata 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.