1. Deciduous Japanese shrub cultivated for its fragrant yellow flowers
   "Winter sweet blooms during the coldest months";
   - Japan allspice, Japanese allspice, Chimonanthus praecox
    
2. Dwarf aromatic shrub of Crete
   "winter sweet clings to the rocky cliffs of its native island";
   - dittany of crete, cretan dittany, crete dittany, hop marjoram, Origanum dictamnus
    
3. Aromatic Eurasian perennial
   "winter sweet grew abundantly on the sunny hillside";
   - oregano, marjoram, pot marjoram, wild marjoram, Origanum vulgare
    
4. 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
   "The winter sweet's toxic sap was historically used for arrow poison";
   - poison arrow plant, Acocanthera oblongifolia, Acocanthera spectabilis

Derived forms: winter sweets

Type of: bush, origanum, shrub

Part of: Acocanthera, Acokanthera, Chimonanthus, genus Acocanthera, genus Acokanthera, genus Chimonanthus, genus Origanum

Encyclopedia: Winter sweet