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Definition of Sage brush
1. Noun. Any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium.
Group relationships: Aster Family, Asteraceae, Compositae, Family Asteraceae, Family Compositae
Specialized synonyms: Artemisia Californica, California Sage, California Sagebrush, Artemisia Filifolia, Sand Sage, Silvery Wormwood, Artemis Spinescens, Bud Brush, Bud Sagebrush, Artemisia Cana, Gray Sage, Grey Sage, Seriphidium Canum, Silver Sage, Silver Sagebrush, Artemisia Tridentata, Big Sagebrush, Blue Sage, Seriphidium Tridentatum
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex
Definition of Sage brush
1. Noun. alternative spelling of sagebrush ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sage Brush
Literary usage of Sage brush
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Roughing It by Mark Twain (2001)
"ture, is the "sage-brush." Its foliage is a grayish green, and gives that tint
to desert and mountain. It smells like our domestic sage, and "sage-tea" made ..."
2. The Gentleman's Magazine (1894)
"WAY to the east of the Sierra Nevada range, which intersects the State of
California, lies a strange, little-known region of desert and mountain, sage-brush ..."
3. The Popular Science Monthly by Harry Houdini Collection (Library of Congress) (1890)
"... structures as is to be found among the modern mission Indians, and is quite
primitive. The roof is composed of thick branches of a kind of sage-brush, ..."
4. Roughing it by Mark Twain (1913)
"When a party camps, the first thing to be done is to cut sage-brush; ... Sage-brush
is very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it 1" Bunch-grass " grows on the ..."
5. Dry Land Farming by Thomas Shaw (1909)
"Such vegetation includes: (1) the growth of sage brush in one or the other of
its forms; ... sage brush is essentially a product of semi-arid soils in dry ..."
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