sage
Noun
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A mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom (synset 110565759)
hyponym:instance hyponym:
- balthasar, balthazar - (New Testament) one of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus
- caspar, gaspar - (New Testament) one of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus
- melchior - (New Testament) one of the three sages from the east who came bearing gifts for the infant Jesus; usually represented as a king of Nubia
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Aromatic fresh or dried grey-green leaves used widely as seasoning for meats and fowl and game etc (synset 107836473)
hypernym: herb - aromatic potherb used in cookery for its savory qualitieshyponym: clary sage - fresh leaves used in omelets and fritters and with lambpart meronym: common sage, ramona, salvia officinalis - shrubby plant with aromatic greyish-green leaves used as a cooking herb
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Any of various plants of the genus Salvia;
A cosmopolitan herb (synset 112885305)hypernym: herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pestshyponym:- 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
member meronym: genus salvia - large genus of shrubs and subshrubs of the mint family varying greatly in habit: sagesynonym: salvia
Adjective
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Having wisdom that comes with age and experience (synset 302580739)
similar: wise - having or prompted by wisdom or discernment
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Of the grey-green color of sage leaves (synset 300384251)
similar: chromatic - being or having or characterized by huesynonym: sage-green
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