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Definition of Sweetleaf
1. Noun. Small yellowwood tree of southern United States having small fragrant white flowers; leaves and bark yield a yellow dye.
Generic synonyms: Angiospermous Yellowwood
Group relationships: Genus Symplocus, Symplocus
Definition of Sweetleaf
1. Noun. Any plant of the genus ''Stevia'', from which stevia is extracted. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweetleaf
Literary usage of Sweetleaf
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"sweetleaf Family. SYMPLOCOS L.Sp. Pl.ed.2, 1:747. 1763. Abont 175 species,
subtropical und tropical regions, eastern Asia, «and South Amer- ii'a to ..."
2. Check List of the Forest Trees of the United States: Their Names and Ranges by George Bishop Sudworth (1898)
"L'H6r. sweetleaf. RANGE.—From southern Delaware (peninsula) to Florida; ...
sweetleaf (Del., NC, SC, Fla., Ala.); Yellow- wood (NC, SC, Ala. ..."
3. Trees of the Northern United States: Their Study, Description and by Austin Craig Apgar (1892)
"sweetleaf.) Leaves simple, alternate, thick, 3 to 5 in. long, elongate-oblong,
acuminate, nearly entire, almost persistent, pale beneath, ..."
4. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1902)
"... Family—E'bony Family—sweetleaf Family—Storax Family, 211-217. CHAPTER XXX.
Order Gentianales—Olive Family—Salvadora ..."
5. Second Report of a Geological Reconnoissance of the Middle and Southern by Richard Owen (1860)
"... the Butternut, the Sweet Gum, the 'Small Laurel Magnolia, with a thick underwood
of the Holly, the sweetleaf (both very abundant), the Wax Myrtle, ..."
6. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... which is called sweetleaf in Georgia and Carolina, are used for dyeing yellow ;
and the leaves of other species are employed for the same purpose in ..."
7. Plant Life of Alabama: An Account of the Distribution, Modes of Association by Charles Theodore Mohr (1901)
"sweetleaf Family. SYMPLOCOS L.Sp. Pl.ed.2, 1:747. 1763. Abont 175 species,
subtropical und tropical regions, eastern Asia, «and South Amer- ii'a to ..."
8. Check List of the Forest Trees of the United States: Their Names and Ranges by George Bishop Sudworth (1898)
"L'H6r. sweetleaf. RANGE.—From southern Delaware (peninsula) to Florida; ...
sweetleaf (Del., NC, SC, Fla., Ala.); Yellow- wood (NC, SC, Ala. ..."
9. Trees of the Northern United States: Their Study, Description and by Austin Craig Apgar (1892)
"sweetleaf.) Leaves simple, alternate, thick, 3 to 5 in. long, elongate-oblong,
acuminate, nearly entire, almost persistent, pale beneath, ..."
10. The Plant World by Plant World Association, Wild Flower Preservation Society (U.S.) (1902)
"... Family—E'bony Family—sweetleaf Family—Storax Family, 211-217. CHAPTER XXX.
Order Gentianales—Olive Family—Salvadora ..."
11. Second Report of a Geological Reconnoissance of the Middle and Southern by Richard Owen (1860)
"... the Butternut, the Sweet Gum, the 'Small Laurel Magnolia, with a thick underwood
of the Holly, the sweetleaf (both very abundant), the Wax Myrtle, ..."
12. The Treasury of Botany: A Popular Dictionary of the Vegetable Kingdom; with by John Lindley (1866)
"... which is called sweetleaf in Georgia and Carolina, are used for dyeing yellow ;
and the leaves of other species are employed for the same purpose in ..."
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