sweetweed

English edit

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Etymology edit

sweet +‎ weed

Noun edit

sweetweed (uncountable)

Either of two tropical American weeds, (Capraria biflora of the figwort family or Scoparia dulcis) of the plantain family.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sweetweed”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)