salvation jane
Word Rarity
Rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 3.82 in modern English
23
Scrabble Score
13
Letters
4
Syllables
10
Unique Chars
Meaning
Example Sentences
- "The plaintiff, an agency of the Commonwealth, in 1980 proposed to import into Australia and release certain insects for the purpose of eradicating or controlling a plant known as Salvation Jane. The plaintiff regarded Salvation Jane as a noxious weed. However, apiarists and certain others engaged in the production of honey regarded Salvation Jane as useful in agricultural production."
- "2009, Basia Bonkowski, Shimmer, Large print edition, page 176, Salvation Jane coats the hills like a lavender shroud. Its distant beauty is at once mysterious and deceptive—the purple tubular flowers sublime and delicate, the stems holding them prickly and unrelenting."
- "Though it is a meagre source of food compared to grass when there is no grass, Salvation Jane may just save the day for a hungry herd."