Sweetish: alternatives and connections

A genus of European birds (so named from their sweet notes), including the hedge warbler. In America sometimes applied to the water th…

The Honey mesquite (Prosopis juliflora), a small tree found from California to Buenos Ayres; also, its sweet, pulpy pods. A valuable g…

A genus of cruciferous plants; madwort. The sweet alyssum (A. maritimum), cultivated for bouquets, bears small, white, sweet-scented f…

A sweet-scented herb; ambrosia. See Ambrosia, 3.

Friendly; kindly; sweet; gracious; as, an amiable temper or mood; amiable ideas.

The name given to several aromatic herbs of the Mint family, but chiefly to the common or sweet basil (Ocymum basilicum), and the bush…

A sweet Spanish wine like muscadel in flavor.

An aboriginal American name for the sweet potato (Ipomaea batatas).

A sweet or loving look.

See Sweet gum.

A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit.

A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit.

Sweet and then bitter or bitter and then sweet; esp. sweet with a bitter after taste; hence (Fig.), pleasant but painful.

The root of a leguminous plant (Psoralea esculenta), found near the Rocky Mountains. It is usually oval in form, and abounds in farina…

A leg of mutton roasted, stuffed with white herrings and sweet herbs.

A rhythmical modulation of the voice or of any sound; as, music of bells in cadence sweet.

A species of Acorus (A. calamus), commonly called calamus, or sweet flag. The root has a pungent, aromatic taste, and is used in medic…

A sweet wine from Portugal; -- so called from the district of Carcavelhos.