DCHP-3

sage bush

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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a bluish-gray shrubby plant of the genus Artemisia, as A. tridentata, of the arid regions of the West.

See: sage

Quotations

1872
The cattle had eaten off all the bunch-grass within three or four miles of the road, and a poor substitute for it chiefly in the shape of a bluish weed or shrub called "sage grass" or "sage bush" had taken its place.
1908
Another nest taken under the same conditions along Frenchman's River, Province of Saskatchewan, on 21st June, was built of the outer bark of sage bush. . . .