aromatic fresh or dried grey-green leaves used widely as seasoning for meats and fowl and game etc | aromatic shrub of arid regions of western North America having hoary leaves |
a mentor in spiritual and philosophical topics who is renowned for profound wisdom | blue-flowered sage of dry prairies of the eastern United States |
any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb | Texas sage having intensely blue flowers |
| sage of western North America to Central America having violet-blue flowers; widespread in cultivation |