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stevia

ste·via [ stvyə ] (plural ste·via or ste·vias)


noun 
Definition:
 
1. food herbal sweetener: a natural calorie-free herbal sweetener, 200 times sweeter than sugar

2. plants bush with leaves yielding sweetener: a Paraguayan bush of the chrysanthemum family, from whose leaves stevia is obtained. Latin name Stevia rebaudiana.

[< modern Latin, after P. J. Esteve (d. 1566), Spanish botanist]
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