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单词 black sage
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black sage
black sage n. (a) any of several tropical American shrubs used (esp. formerly) medicinally; esp. Cordia curassavica (family Boraginaceae); (b) U.S. either of two blue-flowered plants of the family Lamiaceae ( Labiatae) native to western North America, Trichostema lanatum and Salvia mellifera, both important as honey plants.
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1750 G. Hughes Nat. Hist. Barbados vi. 159 (heading) The Black Sage-bush.]
1759 W. Hillary Observ. Changes Air & Dis. Barbados 313 If the Humours are carried to and affect the Head, bathing their Feet in a warm Decoction of Viburnium (called black Sage here) and Vesicatories must be applied.
1874 Overland Monthly Dec. 524/2 The ridges between these dry washes are..covered more thickly with the aromatic bitter Indian wormwood, or black sage.
1917 Domest. Beekeeper 1 Jan. 20/2 Salvia Mellifera—Black Sage.., found as far north as San Francisco, southward and southern California.
1985 J. Carew in S. Brown & J. Wickham Oxf. Bk. Caribbean Short Stories (1999) 102 A pair of bluesakees were playing mating games in a low thicket of black sage and ants bush.
2001 D. Weintraub Monterey Bay Trails 78 On a sandy, rocky track cross a hillside of coastal scrub, mostly black sage.
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