'Meadow sage' definitions:
Definition of 'Meadow sage'
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- Sage \Sage\, n. [OE. sauge, F. sauge, L. salvia, from salvus saved, in allusion to its reputed healing virtues. See Safe.] (Bot.) (a) A suffruticose labiate plant (Salvia officinalis) with grayish green foliage, much used in flavoring meats, etc. The name is often extended to the whole genus, of which many species are cultivated for ornament, as the scarlet sage, and Mexican red and blue sage. (b) The sagebrush. [1913 Webster]
- Meadow sage (Bot.), a blue-flowered species of Salvia (Salvia pratensis) growing in meadows in Europe.
- Sage cheese, cheese flavored with sage, and colored green by the juice of leaves of spinach and other plants which are added to the milk.
- Sage cock (Zool.), the male of the sage grouse; in a more general sense, the specific name of the sage grouse.
- Sage green, of a dull grayish green color, like the leaves of garden sage.
- Sage grouse (Zool.), a very large American grouse (Centrocercus urophasianus), native of the dry sagebrush plains of Western North America. Called also {cock of the plains}. The male is called sage cock, and the female sage hen.
- Sage hare, or Sage rabbit (Zool.), a species of hare (Lepus Nuttalli syn. Lepus artemisia) which inhabits the arid regions of Western North America and lives among sagebrush. By recent writers it is considered to be merely a variety of the common cottontail, or wood rabbit.
- Sage hen (Zool.), the female of the sage grouse.
- Sage sparrow (Zool.), a small sparrow (Amphispiza Belli, var. Nevadensis) which inhabits the dry plains of the Rocky Mountain region, living among sagebrush.
- Sage thrasher (Zool.), a singing bird ({Oroscoptes montanus}) which inhabits the sagebrush plains of Western North America.
- Sage willow (Bot.), a species of willow (Salix tristis) forming a low bush with nearly sessile grayish green leaves. [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Meadow sage'
From: GCIDE
- Meadow \Mead"ow\, a. Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow. "Fat meadow ground." --Milton. [1913 Webster]
- Note: For many names of plants compounded with meadow, see the particular word in the Vocabulary. [1913 Webster]
- Meadow beauty. (Bot.) Same as Deergrass.
- Meadow foxtail (Bot.), a valuable pasture grass (Alopecurus pratensis) resembling timothy, but with softer spikes.
- Meadow hay, a coarse grass, or true sedge, growing in uncultivated swamp or river meadow; -- used as fodder or bedding for cattle, packing for ice, etc. [Local, U. S.]
- Meadow hen. (Zool.) (a) The American bittern. See Stake-driver. (b) The American coot (Fulica). (c) The clapper rail.
- Meadow mouse (Zool.), any mouse of the genus Arvicola, as the common American species Arvicola riparia; -- called also field mouse, and field vole.
- Meadow mussel (Zool.), an American ribbed mussel ({Modiola plicatula}), very abundant in salt marshes.
- Meadow ore (Min.), bog-iron ore, a kind of limonite.
- Meadow parsnip. (Bot.) See under Parsnip.
- Meadow pink. (Bot.) See under Pink.
- Meadow pipit (Zool.), a small singing bird of the genus Anthus, as Anthus pratensis, of Europe.
- Meadow rue (Bot.), a delicate early plant, of the genus Thalictrum, having compound leaves and numerous white flowers. There are many species.
- Meadow saffron. (Bot.) See under Saffron.
- Meadow sage. (Bot.) See under Sage.
- Meadow saxifrage (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant of Europe (Silaus pratensis), somewhat resembling fennel.
- Meadow snipe (Zool.), the common or jack snipe. [1913 Webster] meadowgrass