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sweet_alyssum

sweet alyssum

English

Sweet alyssum

Noun

sweet alyssum (usually uncountable, plural sweet alyssums)

  1. A low-growing flowering annual (Lobularia maritima).
    • 1944, Emily Carr, The House of All Sorts, "A Visitor,"
      The smell of wall-flower and sweet alyssum rose from the garden, and the inexpressible freshness of the daffodils.