Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun Any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia of the composite family, especially A. tridentata, a shrub of arid regions of western North America, having silver-green leaves and large clusters of small white flower heads.
- noun An area dominated by sagebrush.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A collective name of various species of Artemisia which cover immense areas on the dry, often alkaline, plains and mountains of the western United States.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A low irregular shrub (
Artemisia tridentata ), of the order Compositæ, covering vast tracts of the dry alkaline regions of the American plains; -- called alsosagebush , andwild sage .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Any of several
North American aromatic shrubs or smalltrees , of thegenus Artemisia , having silvery-grey, greenleaves .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium
- noun any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium
Etymologies
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Examples
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The Setup Lundberg often hunts in sagebrush flats.
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You may have to crawl to get into position, and if so, you'll find that the sagebrush is carpeted with small cacti, yuccas, rocks, and serpents.
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Have you ever wondered what it looks like to lay down in short sagebrush and have semi-wild canids come hunting you down?
grouse Diary Entry grouse 2003
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The chief vegetation, sometimes called sagebrush steppe, is made up of sagebrush or shadscale mixed with short grasses.
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In uncultivated areas, moisture levels are generally high enough to support grasslands of bluebunch wheatgrass and Idaho fescue without associated sagebrush, which is more common in 10e.
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United States senator in what was popularly known as the sagebrush rebellion, died Tuesday at his home in Jackson, game of the World Series playing out in the slop of a rainstorm.
WN.com - Articles related to The Electric Car and the Road Not Taken 2009
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After 46 years, it's finally official - the sagebrush is the official emblem of the state of Nevada.
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United States senator in what was popularly known as the sagebrush rebellion, died Tuesday at his home in Jackson, game of the World Series playing out in the slop of a rainstorm.
WN.com - Articles related to The Electric Car and the Road Not Taken 2009
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The Great Plains grasslands east of the Rockies have scattered trees and shrubs, such as sagebrush and rabbitbrush, and support all gradations of cover, from semi-desert to woodland.
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There were violet leaves, geranium leaves, dandylion leaves, and a kind of sagebrush-like plant, very thin and branching like some common roadside weed.
frost leaves asakiyume 2006
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