sagebrush

[ seyj-bruhsh ]

noun
  1. any of several sagelike, bushy composite plants of the genus Artemisia, especially A. tridentata, having silvery, wedge-shaped leaves, with three teeth at the tip, common on the dry plains of the western U.S.

Origin of sagebrush

1
An Americanism dating back to 1825–35; sage2 + brush2

Words Nearby sagebrush

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How to use sagebrush in a sentence

  • Gray clumps of sagebrush stood forth like little islands in the sea of grass.

    Mystery Ranch | Arthur Chapman
  • She liked to turn off the road and gallop across the trackless ways, sometimes frightening rabbits and coyotes from the sagebrush.

    Mystery Ranch | Arthur Chapman
  • The wide fields were covered with sagebrush or bunchgrass and there were no railroads.

  • They are found in abundance on the dry sagebrush covered plains about the Rocky Mountains and to the westward.

    Western Bird Guide | Chester A. (Chester Albert) Reed, Harry F. Harvey, and Rex I. Brasher
  • Then a distant bunch of sagebrush transformed itself into another moving form, and two coyotes trotted into the scene.

    Watched by Wild Animals | Enos A. Mills

British Dictionary definitions for sagebrush

sagebrush

/ (ˈseɪdʒˌbrʌʃ) /


noun
  1. any of several aromatic plants of the genus Artemisia, esp A. tridentata, a shrub of W North America, having silver-green leaves and large clusters of small white flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)

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