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Definition of Gray sage
1. Noun. Low much-branched perennial of western United States having silvery leaves; an important browse and shelter plant.
Generic synonyms: Sage Brush, Sagebrush
Group relationships: Genus Seriphidium, Seriphidium
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gray Sage
Literary usage of Gray sage
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Where Rolls the Oregon by Dallas Lore Sharp (1914)
"... desert that I wanted to traverse — it was the sage and the sand, the roll,
the reach to the horizon, the gray, sage gray, that I had come out to see. ..."
2. Color Key to North American Birds: With Bibliographical Appendix by Frank Michler Chapman, Chester Albert Reed (1912)
"gray sage Sparrow (A. b. cinerea). Similar to No. 574, but paler above, throat-stripes
narrower- more interrupted, breast-spot smaller, both stripes and ..."
3. The Heart of the Continent: A Record of Travel Across the Plains and in by Fitz Hugh Ludlow (1870)
"... to the far-off van, slowly winding under a thin tawny cloud of dost, and
through the gray sage about two miles before them, toward the Tuilla Valley. ..."
4. North American Birds Eggs by Chester Albert Reed (1904)
"... the eggs are like those of the last species, greenish white, spotted and
blotched with shades of brown and purplish. 574b. gray sage Sparrow. ..."
5. Tales of Lonely Trails by Zane Grey (1922)
"Against a background of gray sage the gold and red and purple aspen groves showed
too much like exquisite paintings to seem real. In the mornings the frost ..."
6. Library of the World's Best Literature, Ancient and Modern by Edward Cornelius Towne (1898)
"Side-scarred peaks Where the gray sage hangs like a smoke. And the vultures wipe
their bloody beaks, From the feast in the crotched oak,— You are Castro's, ..."
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