stevia

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈstiːvɪə/|/ˈstɛvɪə/   

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of the sweet herbs of genus Stevia, native to tropical and subtropical regions of South America and western North America.
    — A naturally sweet herb called stevia is gaining in popularity as a sugar substitute, especially in beverages. Food additives must provide evidence of their safety and effectiveness before receiving FDA approval, and stevia lacks this approval for use as a sweetener because so little is known about its effects on human health, save that it can be absorbed by the human digestive tract.
  2. A sweetener, many times sweeter than an equal amount of sugar, extracted from Stevia rebaudiana, that can be substituted for sugar for some purposes.
    — Stevia is a natural, non-fattening sweetener that is 30 to 100 times sweeter than sugar and without any of the aftertaste that is common in many sugar substitutes.

词形变化

stevias plural

词汇关系

衍生词
steviol

词源

Borrowed from translingual Stevia, after 16th century Spanish botanist Pedro Jaime Esteve (latinized as Petrus Jacobus Stevus).
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