PITCHER SAGE

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Meaning:

California plant with woolly stems and leaves and large white flowers

Synonyms:

Lepechinia calycina; pitcher sage; Sphacele calycina

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pitcher sage" is a kind of...):

bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Holonyms ("pitcher sage" is a member of...):

genus Lepechinia; genus Sphacele; Lepechinia; Sphacele (a dicotyledonous genus of the family Labiatae)

Meaning:

California erect and sparsely branched perennial

Synonyms:

pitcher sage; Salvia spathacea

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("pitcher sage" is a kind of...):

sage; salvia (any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb)