wintersweet

American  

[win-ter-sweet] / ˈwɪn tərˌswit /

noun

1. a shrub, Chimonanthus praecox, native to China, having large leaves and fragrant yellow flowers.

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Etymology

Origin of wintersweet

First recorded in 1890–95; winter + sweet

Example Sentences

You might also lump the potently fragrant wintersweet into those shrubs that are nondescript garden plants but are perfect for cutting and forcing.

From Washington Post

If you had in your garden such hibernal bloomers as hellebores, mahonias, sweetbox, Cyclamen coum, witch hazels, edgeworthia, daphnes, camellias, violas, autumn-flowering cherry trees and wintersweet, to name a few, you would have hit the jackpot in 2020.

From Washington Post

When she released her first album in Mandarin, one of the songs, “Wintersweet Blossoms in Siberia,” was dedicated to the imprisoned dissident Liu Xiaobo.

From The New Yorker

Consider planting Japanese apricot, wintersweet, winter jasmine and witch hazels.

From Washington Post

At the shield’s base bloom wintersweet from Kensington palace, and golden poppies, California’s state flower.

From Slate