Found 2 hits - Term: sweet gum, Database: *, Strategy: prefix
- [1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
sweet \sweet\, a. compar. sweeter; superl. sweetest. oe.
swete, swote, sote, as. sw=ete; akin to ofries. sw=ete,
os. sw=oti, d. zoet, g. s"uss, ohg. suozi, icel. saetr,
soetr, sw. s"ot, dan. s"od, goth. suts, l. suavis, for
suadvis, gr. ?, skr. sv=adu sweet, svad, sv=ad, to
sweeten. root175. cf. assuage, suave, suasion.
1. having an agreeable taste or flavor such as that of sugar;
saccharine; -- opposed to sour and bitter; as, a sweet
beverage; sweet fruits; sweet oranges.
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2. pleasing to the smell; fragrant; redolent; balmy; as, a
sweet rose; sweet odor; sweet incense.
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the breath of these flowers is sweet to me.
--longfellow.
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3. pleasing to the ear; soft; melodious; harmonious; as, the
sweet notes of a flute or an organ; sweet music; a sweet
voice; a sweet singer.
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to make his english sweet upon his tongue.
--chaucer.
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a voice sweet, tremulous, but powerful. --hawthorne.
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4. pleasing to the eye; beautiful; mild and attractive; fair;
as, a sweet face; a sweet color or complexion.
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sweet interchange
of hill and valley, rivers, woods, and plains.
--milton.
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5. fresh; not salt or brackish; as, sweet water. --bacon.
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6. not changed from a sound or wholesome state. specifically:
a not sour; as, sweet milk or bread.
b not state; not putrescent or putrid; not rancid; as,
sweet butter; sweet meat or fish.
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7. plaesing to the mind; mild; gentle; calm; amiable;
winning; presuasive; as, sweet manners.
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canst thou bind the sweet influence of pleiades?
--job xxxviii.
31.
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mildness and sweet reasonableness is the one
established rule of christian working. --m. arnold.
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note: sweet is often used in the formation of self-explaining
compounds; as, sweet-blossomed, sweet-featured,
sweet-smelling, sweet-tempered, sweet-toned, etc.
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sweet alyssum. bot. see alyssum.
sweet apple. bot.
a any apple of sweet flavor.
b see sweet-sop.
sweet bay. bot.
a the laurel laurus nobilis.
b swamp sassafras.
sweet calabash bot., a plant of the genus passiflora
passiflora maliformis growing in the west indies, and
producing a roundish, edible fruit, the size of an apple.
sweet cicely. bot.
a either of the north american plants of the
umbelliferous genus osmorrhiza having aromatic roots
and seeds, and white flowers. --gray.
b a plant of the genus myrrhis myrrhis odorata
growing in england.
sweet calamus, or sweet cane. bot. same as sweet
flag, below.
sweet cistus bot., an evergreen shrub cistus ladanum
from which the gum ladanum is obtained.
sweet clover. bot. see melilot.
sweet coltsfoot bot., a kind of butterbur petasites
sagittata found in western north america.
sweet corn bot., a variety of the maize of a sweet taste.
see the note under corn.
sweet fern bot., a small north american shrub comptonia
asplenifolia syn. myrica asplenifolia having
sweet-scented or aromatic leaves resembling fern leaves.
sweet flag bot., an endogenous plant acorus calamus
having long flaglike leaves and a rootstock of a pungent
aromatic taste. it is found in wet places in europe and
america. see calamus, 2.
sweet gale bot., a shrub myrica gale having bitter
fragrant leaves; -- also called sweet willow, and dutch
myrtle. see 5th gale.
sweet grass bot., holy, or seneca, grass.
sweet gum bot., an american tree liquidambar
styraciflua. see liquidambar.
sweet herbs, fragrant herbs cultivated for culinary
purposes.
sweet john bot., a variety of the sweet william.
sweet leaf bot., horse sugar. see under horse.
sweet marjoram. bot. see marjoram.
sweet marten zool., the pine marten.
sweet maudlin bot., a composite plant achillea
ageratum allied to milfoil.
sweet oil, olive oil.
sweet pea. bot. see under pea.
sweet potato. bot. see under potato.
sweet rush bot., sweet flag.
sweet spirits of niter med. chem. see spirit of nitrous
ether, under spirit.
sweet sultan bot., an annual composite plant centaurea
moschata, also, the yellow-flowered centaurea
odorata; -- called also sultan flower.
sweet tooth, an especial fondness for sweet things or for
sweetmeats. colloq.
sweet william.
a bot. a species of pink dianthus barbatus of many
varieties.
b zool. the willow warbler.
c zool. the european goldfinch; -- called also sweet
billy. prov. eng.
sweet willow bot., sweet gale.
sweet wine. see dry wine, under dry.
to be sweet on, to have a particular fondness for, or
special interest in, as a young man for a young woman.
colloq. --thackeray.
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syn: sugary; saccharine; dulcet; luscious.
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see also:
sweeter sweetest assuage suave suasion sweet alyssum
alyssum sweet apple sweet-sop sweet bay laurus nobilis
sweet calabash passiflora passiflora maliformis sweet cicely osmorrhiza
myrrhis myrrhis odorata sweet calamus sweet cane sweet flag
sweet cistus cistus ladanum sweet clover melilot sweet coltsfoot
petasites sagittata sweet corn corn sweet fern comptonia asplenifolia
myrica asplenifolia sweet flag acorus calamus calamus sweet gale
myrica gale sweet willow dutch myrtle gale sweet grass
sweet gum liquidambar styraciflua liquidambar sweet herbs sweet john
sweet leaf horse sweet marjoram marjoram sweet marten
sweet maudlin achillea ageratum sweet oil sweet pea pea
sweet potato potato sweet rush sweet spirits of niter spirit of nitrous ether
spirit sweet sultan centaurea moschata centaurea odorata sultan flower
sweet tooth sweet william dianthus barbatus sweet billy sweet willow
sweet wine dry wine dry to be sweet on
- [2] : WordNet (r) 2.0
sweet gum
n 1: reddish-brown wood and lumber from heartwood of the sweet
gum tree used to make furniture syn: satin walnut, hazelwood,
red gum
2: aromatic exudate from the sweet gum tree syn: liquidambar
3: a north american tree of the genus liquidambar having
prickly spherical fruit clusters and fragrant sap syn: sweet
gum tree, bilsted, red gum, american sweet gum, liquidambar
styraciflua
see also:
satin walnut hazelwood red gum liquidambar sweet gum tree bilsted
american sweet gum liquidambar styraciflua
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