Home › Words › W › wintersweetwintersweetwintersweet · noun — any of the flowering plants of the genus Chimonanthus.Definition from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).EtymologyFrom winter + sweet.nounAny of the flowering plants of the genus Chimonanthus.Definitions & examples from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 3.0).Words closest in meaningBy meaning, not spelling — each word's AI semantic fingerprint, nearest first.chimonanthus 72% match — Any Asian shrub of the genus Chimonanthus, especially a form of allspice vs wintersweet →wintersome 60% match — A crop, a kind of sweet sorghum. vs wintersweet →winterbloom 59% match — Witch hazel. vs wintersweet →calycanthus 58% match — Any of the genus Calycanthus of sweetshrubs. vs wintersweet →pyrola 57% match — Any of the genus Pyrola of wintergreens. vs wintersweet →wintercress 57% match — Any of the genus Barbarea of small herbaceous biennial or perennial flowering plants with dark green, deeply lobed leaves and yellow flowers with four petals. vs wintersweet →summersweet 56% match — Clethra alnifolia, a deciduous flowering shrub of eastern North America. vs wintersweet →skimmia 54% match — Any of the genus Skimmia of evergreen shrubs and trees. vs wintersweet →