Central and South America

• Natural sweetener
• Plant-based sweetener
• Sweetener from a leaf extract
• Any plant of the genus Stevia or the closely related genus Piqueria having glutinous foliage and white or purplish flowers
• Lydia's sugar substitute on "Breaking Bad"
• What sweetens some soy sauce
• Sweetener for some diabetics
• Equal rival

Wikipedia Word definitions in Wikipedia
Stevia (, or ) is a sweetener and sugar substitute extracted from the leaves of the plant species Stevia rebaudiana . The active compounds of stevia are steviol glycosides (mainly stevioside and rebaudioside ), which have up to 150 times the sweetness of ...

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of the sweet herbs of genus ''Stevia'', native to tropical and subtropical regions of South America and western North America. 2 A sweetener, many times sweeter than an equal amount of sugar, extracted from (taxlink Stevia rebaudiana species noshow=1), ...