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Definition of Summer sweet

1. Noun. Shrub of eastern and southern coastal United States having beautiful racemes of spice-scented white flowers.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Summer Sweet

Literary usage of Summer sweet

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

1. The Apples of New York by Spencer Ambrose Beach, Nathaniel Ogden Booth, Orrin Morehouse Taylor (1905)
"summer sweet (5, 6, 9, 14). summer sweetING (2). SWEET JUNE (4, io, 13, 18). Sweet June (6, 9, n, 14, 16, 19, 20, 2i). Fruit of medium size; flesh yellowish ..."

2. A Treasury of Irish Poetry in the English Tongue by Stopford Augustus Brooke, Thomas William Rolleston (1900)
"SUMMER-SWEET HONEY-SWEET, sweet as honey smell the lilies, Little lilies of the gold in a ring ; Little censers of pale gold are the lilies, That the wind, ..."

3. The American Fruit Culturist: Containing Practical Directions for the by John Jacob Thomas (1875)
"summer sweet of Ohio. See High Top Sweeting. [A summer sweet of Conn., ... summer sweet Paradise, p. 198. Summerour. See Nickajack. Superb Sweet. ..."

4. The American Fruit Culturist by Jon Jacob Thomas (1897)
"summer sweet of Ohio. See High-top Sweeting. summer sweet Paradise, p. 257. Surprise. Small, roundish, yellow; flesh red. Of little value. Susan's Spice. ..."

5. The Shakespeare Garden by Esther Singleton (1922)
"Summer "SWEET SUMMER BUDS" "Morning Roses Newly Washed with Dew" THE ROSE (Rosa). Shakespeare speaks of the rose more frequently than any other flower. ..."

6. Days and Deeds: A Book of Verse for Children's Reading and Speaking by Elizabeth Shepard Butler Stevenson (1906)
"... From rustling hazel copse and tangled dell, "Farewell, sweet Summer, Fragrant, fruity Summer, Sweet, farewell!" Upon the windy hills, in many a field, ..."

7. The Golden Treasury of Irish Songs and Lyrics by Charles Welsh (1907)
"SUMMER-SWEET HONEY-SWEET, sweet as honey smell the lilies, Little lilies of the gold in a ring ; Little censers of pale gold are the lilies, That the wind, ..."

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