salvia

sal·vi·a  (slv-)

n.

Any of various plants of the genus Salvia in the mint family, having opposite leaves, a two-lipped corolla, and two stamens.

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[Latin salvia, sage; see sage².]

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salvia [ˈsælvɪə]

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) any herbaceous plant or small shrub of the genus Salvia, such as the sage, grown for their medicinal or culinary properties or for ornament: family Lamiaceae (labiates)

[from Latin: sage²]

Thesaurus

Noun

1.

salvia - any of various plants of the genus Salvia; a cosmopolitan herb sage herb, herbaceous plant - a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests genus Salvia - large genus of shrubs and subshrubs of the mint family varying greatly in habit: sage Salvia azurea, blue sage - 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 mealy sage, Salvia farinacea, blue sage - 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

Translations

salvia [ˈsælvɪə] N → salvia f