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ˈwood-sage [sage n.1] A common name for Wood Germander (Teucrium Scorodonia), a labiate herb with dull greenish-yellow flowers, and leaves having a heavy aromatic smell like sage and a bitter flavour like hops.
1570Pena & Lobel Stirp. Advers. nova (1576) 210 Scordium alterum Plinij... Wood sage. 1597[see sage n.1 3]. 1758Borlase Nat. Hist. Cornw. 229 Wood-sage, Salvia agrestis seu scorodonia,..at St. Michael's Mount. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) III. 519. 1880 Jefferies Gt. Estate 91. |