Noun: salvia
| Singular | salvia |
| Plural | salvias |
Sample Sentences
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But strong-stemmed bushy plants like salvias, coneflowers, cosmos, marigolds, nicotianas and zinnias should be cut back only to the next strong branch or pair of branches. [2007 July 12, Leslie Land, “Garden Q.&A.”, in New York Times:]
Nouns inflected like salvia
soldier's woundwort,
Nicosian,
whopper,
greypate,
tactile sign language,
chronotrope,
Rosie Lee,
dissentient,
photoinactivator,
sulphonediimine,
coastal waterfall,
residuary devise,
bituminization,
nitrosonaphthol,
smṛiti,
geosphere,
backscreen,
mensuralist,
flocculate,
flocculant, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
Borrowed from translingual Salvia, in turn from Latin salvia (“sage”). Doublet of sage. See: Latin Nouns '
salvia'.