Crossword clues for sagebrush
sagebrush
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1850, from sage (n.1), to which it has no biological affinity, + brush (n.2). Said to be so called for resemblance of its appearance or odor.\n\nSage-brush is very fair fuel, but as a vegetable it is a distinguished failure. Nothing can abide the taste of it but the jackass and his illegitimate child, the mule.
["Mark Twain," "Roughing It"]
Wiktionary
n. Any of several North American aromatic shrubs of the genus ''Artemisia'', having silvery-grey, green leaves.
WordNet
n. any of several North American composite subshrubs of the genera Artemis or Seriphidium [syn: sage brush]
Wikipedia
Sagebrush is a common name of a number of shrubby plant species in the genus Artemisia native to western North America;
Or, the sagebrush steppe ecoregion, having one or more kinds of sagebrush, bunchgrasses and others;
Sagebrush could also refer to:- Sagebrush Corporation, which produced library automation software, now owned by Follett Software
- The Nevada Sagebrush, the student-run newspaper of the University of Nevada
- Sagebrush Rebellion, a political movement that believes that Federal governmental owned land in the American West should be passed to state or local authorities
Sagebrush is a common name applied generally to several woody and herbaceous species of plants in the genus Artemisia. The best known sagebrush is the shrub Artemisia tridentata. Sagebrushes are native to the North American west.
Following is an alphabetical list of common names for various species of the genus Artemisia, along with their corresponding scientific name. Many of these species are known by more than one common name, and some common names represent more than one species.
- African sagebrush— Artemisia afra
- Alpine sagebrush— Artemisia scopulorum
- Basin sagebrush— Artemisia tridentata
- Big sagebrush—see Basin sagebrush
- Bigelow sagebrush— Artemisia bigelovii
- Birdfoot sagebrush— Artemisia pedatifida
- Black sagebrush— Artemisia nova
- Blue sagebrush—see Basin sagebrush
- Boreal sagebrush— Artemisia arctica
- Budsage— Artemisia spinescens
- California sagebrush— Artemisia californica
- Carruth's sagebrush— Artemisia carruthii
- Coastal sagebrush—see California sagebrush
- Dwarf sagebrush—see Alpine sagebrush
- Fringed sagebrush— Artemisia frigida
- Gray sagewort—see White sagebrush
- Island sagebrush— Artemisia nesiotica
- Little sagebrush— Artemisia arbuscula
- Longleaf sagebrush— Artemisia longifolia
- Low sagebrush—see Little sagebrush
- Michaux sagebrush— Artemisia michauxiana
- Owyhee sagebrush— Artemisia papposa
- Prairie sagebrush—see White sagebrush
- Pygmy sagebrush— Artemisia pygmaea
- Ragweed sagebrush— Artemisia franserioides
- Sand sagebrush— Artemisia filifolia
- Scabland sagebrush— Artemisia rigida
- Silver sagebrush— Artemisia cana
- Succor Creek sagebrush— Artemisia packardiae
- Timberline sagebrush— Artemisia rothrockii
- Threetip sagebrush— Artemisia tripartita
- White sagebrush— Artemisia ludoviciana
Usage examples of "sagebrush".
The land was growing higher and less grassy, the waving fields of long brown grasses giving way to short bunchgrass and huge, scraggy-barked sagebrush.
Slogging along over rocky hills and sparse bunchgrass, she managed to dodge yellow flowering sagebrush and still search the cloud formations overhead for kittens and ghosts.
The clients stay well behind Herrero as the party crosses the flat, following his lead through catclaw, ocotillo, and dusty sagebrush.
From his point of vantage, Rudy could see a pair of tall, ostrichlike birds stalking silently through the twilight shadows of the sagebrush, almost unnoticeable, despite their size, because of their hairy, brownish-grey feathers and smooth, catlike tread.
From his point of vantage, Rudy could see a pair of tall, ostrichlike birds stalking silently through the twilight shadows of the sagebrush, almost unnoticeable, despite their size, because of their hairy, brownish-gray feathers and smooth, catlike tread.
The shimmering asphalt coasted over a parched and repetitious plateau, spotted with stunted sagebrush and saltweed and creosote bush.
The Quirt ranch was almost surrounded by Sawtooth land of one sort or another, though there was scant grazing in the early spring on the sagebrush wilderness to the south.
The forest covered a sizable piece of land, eventually filtering down into a terrain of semidesert, dotted with sagebrush and mesquite.
Out on the high plains the country was turning green once more, she felt a little cheered by that, and the weather was starting to warm up again and she sat looking out the window at the sagebrush and soapweed scattered in dark clumps in the pastures, and there were the first faint starts of blue grama and timothy.
They passed a large open space, with light gravel partly covered with thimbleberry bushes and sagebrush.
They drove across a broken cattleguard and down a lane overgrown with sagebrush before pulling to a stop in front of an abandoned wood-frame building.
Moments later she emerged, skirted around the house and entered the sagebrush, heading for the few silvery cottonwoods and willows growing along the Rio Lucero.
The soil here was typical of a sagebrush flat: loose, light, and with enough fine caliche particles to form a crust.
The land here was flat, flowing into a sagebrush terrain as you approached the highway again, leading to pinon foothills and the high mountains in the east, to the gorge and a formation of delicate gray and beige mesas in the west.
Motes could name them undesirable and then it would be a short walk into the sagebrush and a short encounter with Azrael and his brothers and sisters.