sweet scabious
- noun
- /swit ˈskeɪbiəs/
:
escabiosa dulce
- The sweet scabious adds vibrant color and a lovely scent to summer flower beds.
Examples
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I planted sweet scabious along the border to attract butterflies to my garden.
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Gardeners value sweet scabious for its long-lasting blooms and ease of cultivation.
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The garden was filled with beautiful sweet scabious.
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Have you seen the sweet scabious blooming this year?
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Gardeners value sweet scabious for its long-lasting blooms and ease of cultivation.
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I planted sweet scabious along the border to attract butterflies to my garden.
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The sweet scabious adds vibrant color and a lovely scent to summer flower beds.
Synonyms
A garden plant with scented purple to dark red flowers like a pincushion
A garden plant with round purple or red flowers that smell nice and attract butterflies
A plant that lives one year and has fragrant purple to deep red flower heads
A garden plant with round, pincushion-like flowers often from Mediterranean areas
How Fragrant
Surface Forms
Morphology
This is a straightforward adjective + noun composition: 'sweet' describes a quality of the plant 'scabious', so a learner who knows both words can infer it refers to a scabious with a sweet/fragrant quality. The meaning follows regular English noun modification patterns and is fully compositional rather than idiomatic.
Etymology
Sweet scabious comes from the old word scabious, from Latin 'scabiosa' meaning 'scab', because people once used the plant to help skin problems. The word sweet refers to its pleasant smell, so the name points to a fragrant garden flower that was once used as a simple remedy.