sagebrush
noun
sage·brush
ˈsāj-ˌbrəsh 
: any of several North American hoary composite subshrubs (genus Artemisia)
especially
: one (A. tridentata) having a bitter juice and an odor resembling sage and often covering vast tracts of alkaline plains in the western U.S.
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These traveling electricians are transforming the sagebrush here in central Washington, with substations going up on orchards and farmland.
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Jovelle Tamayo, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
Women’s groups around the country began making their choices, and, in the decades that followed, states codified their selections and added others: the sagebrush of Nevada, the Cherokee rose of Georgia, the sego lily of Utah.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2024
Carpeted by a mix of trees, shrubs and sagebrush, the rolling land has a commanding view of the iconic Teton Range and is a prime habitat for animals including elk, moose and grizzly bears.
—CBS News, 28 Dec. 2024
Deep in the sagebrush steppe of southeast Idaho on December 20, 1951, a team of nuclear physicists gathered around four 200-watt lightbulbs dangling from a slack wire.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
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Jovelle Tamayo, New York Times, 25 Dec. 2024
Women’s groups around the country began making their choices, and, in the decades that followed, states codified their selections and added others: the sagebrush of Nevada, the Cherokee rose of Georgia, the sego lily of Utah.
—Casey Cep, The New Yorker, 28 Dec. 2024
Carpeted by a mix of trees, shrubs and sagebrush, the rolling land has a commanding view of the iconic Teton Range and is a prime habitat for animals including elk, moose and grizzly bears.
—CBS News, 28 Dec. 2024
Deep in the sagebrush steppe of southeast Idaho on December 20, 1951, a team of nuclear physicists gathered around four 200-watt lightbulbs dangling from a slack wire.
—Eli Wizevich, Smithsonian Magazine, 20 Dec. 2024
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sagebrush
noun
sage·brush
ˈsāj-ˌbrəsh
: any of several low shrubby North American plants related to the daisies
especially
: a common plant with a bitter juice that smells like sage and is widespread on the plains of the western U.S.
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