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sweet-scented, a.
(stress variable)
Having a sweet-scent; sweet-smelling, fragrant.
1591Cokaine Treat. Hunting B 3 b, Sweet sented Roe. 1606N. Baxter Sydney's Ourania L iv b, The fragrant smell, Of sweetest sented flowers. 1730Bailey (fol.), Aromatical, having a Spicey Smell, sweet scented. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. ii. iv. vii, Thus go they plunging; champ the sweet-scented forest-herb. 1843Prescott Mexico (1850) I. 62 He was arrayed in a splendid dress, regaled with incense, and with a profusion of sweet-scented flowers.
b. spec. in names of species or varieties of plants having sweet-smelling flowers, leaves, etc.
sweet-scented pea, an early name for the sweet pea.
1666R. Preston Let. in Essex Rev. (1908) XVII. 133 One hogshead of Sweet-sented tobacco. 1688Clayton in Phil. Trans. XVII. 943 There is not only the two distinct sorts of a Sweet-scented, and Aranoko Tobacco, but of each of these be several sorts much different. 1728Bradley Dict. Bot. II, Lathyrus, in English Cicheling, is a kind of Pulse, which has many varieties..of these is our fine sweet scented Pea. 1753Chambers' Cycl. Suppl. s.v. Rubus, The sweet scented rubus. 1796Withering Brit. Plants (ed. 3) II. 59 Sweet-scented Vernal-grass. 1846–50A. Wood Class-bk. Bot. 258 Calycanthus floridus, Carolina Allspice. Sweet-scented Shrub. |