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Definition of Stevia

1. Noun. Any plant of the genus Stevia or the closely related genus Piqueria having glutinous foliage and white or purplish flowers; Central and South America.

2. Noun. Any plant of the genus Piqueria or the closely related genus Stevia.

Definition of Stevia

1. Noun. A sweet herb, of genus ''Stevia'', native to Paraguay ¹

2. Noun. A sweetener extracted from this plant that can be substituted for sugar is some uses. Much sweeter than an equal amount of sugar. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Stevia

stets stetson stetsons stetted stetting steups stevastelin steved stevedore stevedored

stevedores stevedoring steven stevened stevensite stevia (current term) stevias steving steviol stevvon

stew in one's juices stew in one's own broth stew in one's own grease stew in one's own juices stew meat stewable steward stewarded stewardess

Literary usage of Stevia

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Companion to the Botanical Magazine: Being a Journal, Containing Such by Sir William Jackson Hooker (1836)
"stevia laxa, Hook, et Arn.—In this the leaves are occasionally serrated, ... stevia hirsuta, Hook, et Arn.—Has about twenty bristles to the pappus. 903. ..."

2. Synoptical Flora of North America: The Gamopetalae, Being a Second Edition by Asa Gray (1888)
"... the flowers (about an inch long) ch exceeding the involucre : this and the corolla rose-colored : nearly of habit, and pappus somewhat of stevia. ..."

3. Home Floriculture: A Familiar Guide to the Treatment of Flowering and Other by Eben Eugene Rexford (1903)
"... OLEANDER., AGAPANTHUS, AGERA- TUM, stevia AND EUPATORIUM The Plumbago Plumbago Capensis is one of the best house plants I have ever grown. ..."

4. The Window Gardener by Edward Sprague Rand (1876)
"Soil. — Culture. GELSEMIUM: Culture. stevia: Soil. — Culture. PETUNIA: History.—Soil. —Culture. FERNS in THK PARLOR. ..."

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