Savory
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Savory or Savoury may refer to:
  • Savory (genus), herbs of the genus Satureja, particularly :
    • Summer savory
      Summer savory
      Summer savory is the better known of the savory species. It is an annual, but otherwise is similar in use and flavor to the perennial winter savory...

       (Satureja hortensis), an annual herb
    • Winter savory
      Winter savory
      Winter savory is a perennial herb in the family Lamiaceae, native to warm temperate regions of southern Europe.It is a semi-evergreen, semi-woody subshrub growing to over tall. The leaves are opposite, oval-lanceolate, 1–2 cm long and 5 mm broad...

       (Satureja montana), a perennial herb
  • Savoriness, a type of taste.
  • Savoury (small dish)
    Savoury (small dish)
    A savoury is the final course of a traditional British formal meal, following the sweet pudding or dessert course. The savoury is designed to "clear the palate" before the Port is served. It generally consists of salty and plain elements....

    , a small savoury dish, traditionally served towards the end of a formal meal in European cuisine, particularly in Britain and France
  • Savory (song), 1994 single by the band Jawbox

People

  • Allan Savory
    Allan Savory
    Allan Redin Savory is a Zimbabwean biologist, farmer, soldier, exile, environmentalist and winner of the Banksia International Award 2003. and winner of the Buckminster Fuller Award 2010...

     (born 1935), Zimbabwean environmentalist, inventor of the Savory brittleness scale
    Savory brittleness scale
    The Savory brittleness scale is used to describe the annual distribution of humidity in a particular environment. It was developed by Allan Savory, a Zimbabwean biologist. The scale is used in land management because the distribution of humidity affects the way that land, particularly when...

  • Arthur H. Savory, English country writer
  • Brett Alexander Savory
    Brett Alexander Savory
    Brett Alexander Savory is the Bram Stoker Award-winning editor-in-chief of ChiZine: Treatments of Light and Shade in Words, Co-Publisher of ChiZine Publications, has had over 50 short stories published, and written two novels....

     (born 1973), Canadian writer
  • Charles Savory
    Charles Savory
    Charles Savory was a New Zealand international rugby league footballer and champion boxer who died in the First World War. An Australasian and New Zealand international representative forward, Savory was one of four Kiwis players selected to go on the 1911-12 Kangaroo tour of Great Britain.-Rugby...

    , New Zealand rugby league footballer
  • Douglas Lloyd Savory
    Douglas Lloyd Savory
    Sir Douglas Lloyd Savory was a professor of French and a member of the parliament of the United Kingdom.He was born at Palgrave in Suffolk and educated at Marlborough College and St John's College, Oxford...

    , Ulster Unionist Party Member of the United Kingdom Parliament
  • Henry Savory
    Henry Savory
    Henry Jarvis Savory was an English cricketer who played internationally for Nigeria. A right-handed batsman and right-arm medium pace bowler, he played one first-class match for Gloucestershire County Cricket Club in 1937, against New Zealand.Following his only first-class appearance, he played...

     (born 1914), English cricketer
  • Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Arthur Savory
    Reginald Arthur Savory
    Lieutenant-General Sir Reginald Arthur Savory, KCIE, CB, DSO, MC was a British Indian Army officer during World War I and World War II....

     (1894-1980), British Indian Army Officer
  • Dan 'Savoury' Faiers (1988), Rapido
  • Sir William Savory, 1st Baronet (1826-1895), British surgeon
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