Veronica vs Salvia - What's the difference?
veronica | salvia |
(Roman Catholicism) The image of Jesus's face believed to have been made on the cloth with which St Veronica wiped his face as he went to be crucified; or the cloth used for this.
* 1973 , Nicholas Monsarrat, The Kapillan of Malta :
* 1988 , Anthony Burgess, Any Old Iron :
(bullfighting) A circular swinging movement of the cape, used to avoid the bull.
* 1973 , Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow :
* 1989 , Martin Amis, London Fields , Vintage 2003, p. 357:
(botany) A flower of the genus Veronica , usually having blue petals.
* 2006 , Thomas Pynchon, Against the Day , Vintage 2007, p. 871:
* 1978 , Iris Murdoch, The Sea, The Sea , Vintage 1999, p. 11:
A plant in the genus Salvia , such as sage.
* {{quote-news, year=2007, date=July 12, author=Leslie Land, title=Garden Q.&A., work=New York Times
, passage=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. }}
As nouns the difference between veronica and salvia
is that veronica is the of Jesus's face believed to have been made on the cloth with which St Veronica wiped his face as he went to be crucified; or the cloth used for this while salvia is a plant in the genus Salvia, such as sage.As a proper noun Veronica
is {{given name|female|from=Ancient Greek}}.veronica
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(en noun)- A veil that had wiped off the sweat of Christ? Who could possibly believe that? (…) The only true Veronica of this century was the veronica of the matador – the classic slow swing of the cape before the bull’s face, imitating that holy wiping, mocking it.
- He wiped the lady’s martini glass, having had some trouble with a kind of veronica of lipstick, spat in it viciously, then washed it again.
- The cougher makes a lunge. Slothrop sweeps aside, gives him a quick veronica with his cape, sticks his foot out and trips the kid, who lies on the ground cursing
- He stepped aside as a fight got going between an attendant and some kid by the Alkool display, hopping backwards in a practised veronica when a bottle broke, fearful for his flares.
- meadows full of wildflowers that seemed to Kit enormous, violets as big as your hand, yellow lilies and blue veronica you could shelter from the rain under
- There are also (placed there by man or nature?) quite a lot of skinny fuchsias and dense veronicas , all in flower, and some kind of rather attractive grey-leaved sage.
salvia
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