winter sweet

Questions about winter sweet

What does winter sweet mean?

winter sweet means "dwarf aromatic shrub of Crete". That is the primary sense; the word has 4 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for winter sweet?

Close synonyms include dittany of crete, cretan dittany, crete dittany, hop marjoram, Origanum dictamnus. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is winter sweet a common word?

winter sweet is banded "Familiar" — widely understood, used when the subject calls for it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.