sweet (redirected from sweetest)

sweet

opposite of sour.

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sweet birch oil

see methyl salicylate.

sweet buckeye tree

aesculusoctandra.

sweet clover

melilotusalba.

sweet feed

a mixture of rolled grain and molasses used to tempt convalescent horses and cattle.

sweet grass

panicumschinzii.

sweet itch

an intensely itchy dermatitis of horses caused by hypersensitivity to the bites of Culicoides spp. The lesions are worst in the summer months and most evident along the middle of the back. The skin is thickened and the hair is missing. Called also Queensland itch. See equine allergic dermatitis.

Sweet itch (Queensland itch) on the neck of a horse. By permission from Pascoe R, Knottenbelt DC, Manual of Equine Dermatology, Saunders, 1999

sweet oil

olive oil.

sweet pea

lathyrusodoratus.

sweet potato

ipomoeabatatas.

sweet vernal grass

anthoxanthum odoratum.