silver sage

Questions about silver sage

What does silver sage mean?

silver sage means "low much-branched perennial of western United States having silvery leaves; an important browse and shelter plant".

What is another word for silver sage?

Close synonyms include silver sagebrush, grey sage, gray sage, Seriphidium canum, Artemisia cana. 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 silver sage a common word?

silver 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.