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Definition of honey-sweet
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: sweet with or as if with honey
honey-sweet blossoms honey-sweet voice
honeysweet
nounDefinition of honeysweet (Entry 2 of 2)
: a white woolly perennial herb (Tidestromia oblongifolia) of the desert region of the U.S. forming broad flat mats and having stems and involucral bracts that often turn reddish with age and honey-scented yellow flowers
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