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Sweet, Henry

(Encyclopedia)Sweet, Henry, 1845–1912, English philologist and phonetician. An authority on Anglo-Saxon and the history of the English language, Sweet was also a pioneer in modern scientific phonetics. His Histor...

sweet cicely

(Encyclopedia)sweet cicely sĭsˈəlē [key], name for the European herb Myrrhis odorata and for closely related American and Asian plants of the genus Osmorhiza, all of the family Umbelliferae (parsley family). Bo...

sweet clover

(Encyclopedia)sweet clover or melilot mĕlˈəlŏt [key], Eurasian and North African leguminous herbs of the genus Melilotus of the family Leguminosae (pulse family). Sweet clovers, now widely naturalized in North ...

sweet fern

(Encyclopedia)sweet fern, common name for several plants belonging to different botanical divisions. One is a shrub of the family Myricaceae (bayberry family) in the division Magnoliophyta; others are plants of the...

sweet flag

(Encyclopedia)sweet flag: see arum.

sweet gale

(Encyclopedia)sweet gale: see bayberry.

sweet gum

(Encyclopedia)sweet gum: see witch hazel.

sweet pea

(Encyclopedia)sweet pea, annual climbing plant (Lathyrus odoratus) of the family Leguminosae (pulse family), a legume native to S Europe but, since its introduction to horticulture c.1700, widely cultivated for its...

sweet potato

(Encyclopedia)sweet potato, trailing perennial plant (Ipomoea batatas) of the family Convolvulaceae (morning glory family), native to the New World tropics. Cultivated from ancient times by the Aztecs for its edibl...

sweet William

(Encyclopedia)sweet William: see pink.