scarlet sage

American  

noun

1. a tender shrub, Salvia splendens, of Brazil, having ovate leaves and bell-shaped scarlet flowers.

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Etymology

Origin of scarlet sage

First recorded in 1905–10

Example Sentences

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scarlet sage

A few tough zenias and marigolds and a row of scarlet sage bore witness to the buckets of water that Mrs. Bergson had carried there after sundown, against the prohibition of her sons.

From O Pioneers! by Willa Sibert Cather

Flower-bordered it was, with brilliant scarlet sage, purple bachelor buttons, golden glow.

From Blue Ridge Country by Erskine Caldwell

Nasturtiums and morning-glories and scarlet sage and crinkly-edged white and lavender petunias were still blossoming gaily, and there was even a cluster of white roses on the arbor, for, so far, no frost had come.

From The Turner Twins by Ralph Henry Barbour

Upright flowering plants,--Abutilons, browallias, calceolaria "Lincoln Park," begonias, bouvardias, euphorbias, scarlet sage, richardia or calla, heliotropes, fuchsias, Chinese hibiscus, jasmines, single petunias, swainsona, billbergia, freesias, geraniums, eupheas.

From Manual of Gardening (Second Edition) by L. H. (Liberty Hyde) Bailey

Caroline dragged him impetuously down into the garden, among the brown, varnished stems of the withered roses, the sere, dead ranks of scarlet sage.

From The Three Black Pennys A Novel by Joseph Hergesheimer