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Salvia pratensis
Salvia pratensis, known as meadow clary or meadow sage, is a perennial herb of the mint family native to Europe and known for its staminal lever mechanism.
Salvia sclarea
Salvia sclarea (clary sage), Lamiaceae herb native Mediterranean to W. Himalaya; essential oil rich in linalyl acetate and linalool; sclareol yields Ambroxide fixative; antimicrobial, anthelmintic uses.
Salvia yangii
Salvia yangii, commonly known as Russian sage, is a deciduous subshrub of the mint family, native from Afghanistan to western China and grown for its blue flowers.
Salvian
Salvian (Salvianus, c. 400 – after c. 468) was a Latin Christian priest of Marseilles, author of De gubernatione Dei and Ad ecclesiam on divine judgment.
Salvinia
Salvinia, watermoss or water spangles, a genus of free-floating aquatic ferns; giant salvinia (Salvinia molesta, Kariba weed) is a sterile hybrid invasive weed doubling in 7–10 days, controlled by Cyrtobagous salviniae weevils, and its egg-beater leaf hairs inspire the Salvinia effect in biomimetics.
Salvinia effect
The Salvinia effect, also called the Salvinia paradox, is the persistent retention of an air layer on a surface submerged in water, named for the floating fern Salvinia.
Salvinia in aquaria and cultivation
Salvinia in aquaria and cultivation covers growing floating Salvinia ferns in tanks and ponds, including which species are actually sold, light and nutrient needs, and restrictions on giant salvinia.
Salvinia invasions and control
Salvinia invasions are the uncontrolled spread of floating ferns, above all giant salvinia, which forms dense mats that block navigation and are controlled chemically, mechanically, and with weevils.
Salvinia molesta
Salvinia molesta (giant salvinia, Kariba weed) is a sterile, free-floating aquatic fern from southeastern Brazil that reproduces vegetatively, doubles biomass in days, forms mats up to 1 m thick, and is controlled worldwide by the weevil Cyrtobagous salviniae.
Salvinia natans
Salvinia natans (floating watermoss, 槐叶蘋, サンショウモ) is a small free-floating aquatic fern native to temperate Eurasia and North Africa, an annual that reproduces by frost-sensitive spores and vegetative ramets, and is often confused in trade with invasive giant salvinia.
Salviniales
Salviniales (water ferns, Hydropteridales) is an order of about 70 heterosporous aquatic fern species in Marsileaceae and Salviniaceae, including Salvinia and Azolla, with sporocarps and rice biofertilizer use.
Salvinorin A
Salvinorin A is a neoclerodane diterpene and the principal psychoactive constituent of Salvia divinorum, first isolated in 1982, producing brief hallucinogenic effects via the kappa opioid receptor.
Salvo el crepúsculo
Salvo el crepúsculo is the final poetry collection of the Argentine writer Julio Cortázar, an anthology of 132 poems from forty years of verse, published in Mexico in 1984.
Salvor Hardin
Salvor Hardin is a fictional character from Isaac Asimov's Foundation series. He served as the first Mayor of Terminus, resolving the Seldon Crises by establishing a religion of science.
Salwa Eid Naser
Salwa Eid Naser (born 1998), Nigerian-born Bahraini 400m sprinter; 2019 world champion in Asian-record 48.14, third fastest in history; two-year doping ban 2021; Olympic silver Paris 2024.
Salwan Momika
Salwan Momika, Iraqi refugee and anti-Islam activist known for 2023 Quran burnings in Stockholm with Salwan Najem; deported in 2024, charged with hate speech, shot dead in Södertälje in January 2025.
Salween (river, Myanmar)
Salween (Nu Jiang in China, Thanlwin in Myanmar), a 2,820 km transboundary river from the Tibetan Plateau through Yunnan, Shan, Karenni, and Karen States to the Andaman Sea; over 10 million people, 16 ethnic groups, undammed main channel.
Saly Sarr
Saly Sarr (born 2002) is a Senegalese triple jumper, double African champion (2024, 2026), 2026 world indoor bronze medallist, and Senegalese record holder at 15.08 m.
Salymskoye field
The Salymskoye field is a unique-reserve oil field in the Khanty-Mansi Autonomous District of Western Siberia, discovered in 1965, developed since 1974, and named for the Salym group of fields.
Salyu
Salyu (サリュ) is a Japanese singer from Kanagawa Prefecture, born in 1980, who debuted in 2000 as the fictional singer Lily Chou-Chou in Shunji Iwai's film All About Lily Chou-Chou.
Salyut 1 (Салют-1)
Salyut 1 (Салют-1), also designated DOS-1, was the world's first space station, a Soviet station launched uncrewed in 1971 and occupied for 23 days by the Soyuz 11 crew.
Salyut 6
Salyut 6 (Салют-6) was a Soviet space station launched in 1977, the first of a new Salyut generation with two docking ports enabling in-orbit resupply by Progress craft.
Salyut 7 (Салют-7)
Salyut 7 (Салют-7) was a Soviet space station launched in 1982, the last of the Salyut series, operated until 1991 and famous for the 1985 rescue mission.
Salyut domain
Salyut domain (InterPro IPR043629), a protein domain annotated in Tymoviridae viral replication polyproteins with methyltransferase, helicase, RdRp, and Peptidase C21 domains, and matched by Pfam in some plant ribosomal and bacterial transporter proteins.
Salyut programme
The Salyut program (Saliut) was a series of Soviet orbital space stations launched from 1971 to 1982, beginning with Salyut 1, the world's first space station.
Salzburg
Salzburg, Austria: Baroque city and former prince-archbishop ecclesiastical city-state, Mozart's birthplace; historic center inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List in 1996 (criteria ii, iv, vi), 236 ha core zone.
Salzburger Lungau & Kärntner Nockberge Biosphere Reserve
Salzburger Lungau & Kärntner Nockberge Biosphere Reserve, Austria's largest UNESCO biosphere reserve (149,421 ha, designated 2012), spans Salzburg and Carinthia, with core, maintenance, and development zoning, organic farming, and sustainable tourism projects.
Salzburgring
Salzburgring: permanent Austrian race circuit opened 1969 near Plainfeld and Koppl east of Salzburg, 4.255 km, 12 turns. Hosted the Austrian motorcycle Grand Prix 1971-1994, WTCC 2012-2014, and ADAC GT Masters from 2025.
Salzgitter
Salzgitter, German city in Lower Saxony, founded April 1, 1942 as Watenstedt-Salzgitter around the Reichswerke Hermann Göring steelworks; about 105,000 residents, 31 districts, third-largest industrial location in Lower Saxony, now converting steelmaking to hydrogen-based SALCOS production.
Sam & Cat
Sam & Cat is an American teen sitcom created by Dan Schneider for Nickelodeon, starring Jennette McCurdy and Ariana Grande, which aired from 2013 to 2014.