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| ste·via [ stvyə ] (plural ste·via or ste·vias) |
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1. food herbal sweetener: a natural calorie-free herbal sweetener, 200 times sweeter than sugar
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2. plants bush with leaves yielding sweetener: a Paraguayan bush of the chrysanthemum family, from whose leaves stevia is obtained. Latin name Stevia rebaudiana.
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| [< modern Latin, after P. J. Esteve (d. 1566), Spanish botanist] |
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