[SAGE sb.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 flavor like hops.

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1570.  Pena & Lobel, Stirp. Advers. nova (1576), 210. Scordium alterum Plinij…. Wood sage.

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1597.  [see SAGE sb.1 3.]

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1758.  Borlase, Nat. Hist. Cornw., 229. Wood-sage, Salvia agrestis seu scorodonia,… at St. Michael’s Mount.

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1796.  Withering, Brit. Plants (ed. 3), III. 519.

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1880.  Jefferies, Gt. Estate, 91.

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