winter sweet

Noun

• deciduous Japanese shrub cultivated for its fragrant yellow flowers

• medium-sized shrubby tree of South Africa having thick leathery evergreen leaves and white or pink flowers and globose usually two-seeded purplish black fruits

• aromatic Eurasian perennial

• dwarf aromatic shrub of Crete

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  Japan allspice , Japanese allspice , Chimonanthus praecox , poison arrow plant , Acocanthera oblongifolia , Acocanthera spectabilis , oregano , marjoram , pot marjoram , wild marjoram , Origanum vulgare , dittany of crete , cretan dittany , crete dittany , hop marjoram , Origanum dict