sweetweed|ˈswiːtwiːd| Name for two scrophulariaceous plants of the West Indies and tropical America, Capraria biflora, also called goatweed or West Indian tea, and Scoparia dulcis, also called sweet broomweed or liquorice-weed. 1760J. Lee Introd.Bot.App. 329. 1771 J. R. Forster Flora Amer. Septentr. 28.