stevia

1. 1.

   any plant of the genus Stevia or the closely related genus Piqueria having glutinous foliage and white or purplish flowers; Central and South America

   Broaderherb

   Part ofgenus Stevia
2. 2.

   any plant of the genus Piqueria or the closely related genus Stevia

   Broaderherb

   Part ofPiqueria

Other forms of stevia

plural

stevias·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about stevia

What does stevia mean?

stevia means "any plant of the genus Stevia or the closely related genus Piqueria having glutinous foliage and white or purplish flowers; Central and South America". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in stevia?

stevia has 3 syllables: ste-vi-a. The stress falls on "ste".

Is stevia a common word?

stevia is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.