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SALVIA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb
Synonyms:
sage; salvia
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("salvia" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "salvia"):
blue sage; Salvia azurea (blue-flowered sage of dry prairies of the eastern United States)
clary sage; Salvia clarea (stout Mediterranean sage with white or pink or violet flowers; yields oil used as a flavoring and in perfumery)
blue sage; mealy sage; Salvia farinacea (Texas sage having intensely blue flowers)
blue sage; Salvia lancifolia; Salvia reflexa (sage of western North America to Central America having violet-blue flowers; widespread in cultivation)
chaparral sage; purple sage; Salvia leucophylla (silvery-leaved California herb with purple flowers)
cancer weed; cancerweed; Salvia lyrata (sage of eastern United States)
common sage; ramona; Salvia officinalis (shrubby plant with aromatic greyish-green leaves used as a cooking herb)
meadow clary; Salvia pratensis (tall perennial Old World salvia with violet-blue flowers; found in open grasslands)
clary; Salvia sclarea (aromatic herb of southern Europe; cultivated in Great Britain as a potherb and widely as an ornamental)
pitcher sage; Salvia spathacea (California erect and sparsely branched perennial)
Mexican mint; Salvia divinorum (an herb from Oaxaca that has a powerful hallucinogenic effect; the active ingredient is salvinorin)
Salvia verbenaca; vervain sage; wild clary; wild sage (Eurasian sage with blue flowers and foliage like verbena; naturalized in United States)
Holonyms ("salvia" is a member of...):
genus Salvia (large genus of shrubs and subshrubs of the mint family varying greatly in habit: sage)
