WordNet
gray sage
n. low much-branched perennial of western United States having silvery leaves; an important browse and shelter plant [syn: silver sage, silver sagebrush, Seriphidium canum, Artemisia cana]
Usage examples of "gray sage".
Cedar trees began to show bright green against the soft gray sage.
Fifty miles later as they crossed the Utah border north of Mexican Water, it was no more than a breeze, still from the southeast but almost too faint to stir the sparse gray sage and the silver cheat grass of the Nokaito Bench.
He reached out and stripped the fur from the silver-gray sage beside the road, and when his fingers were sticky with the sap he smelled the sharp penetrating odor on his fingers, breathed it deep into his lungs.