sweet acacia

sweet acacia

n.

A thorny shrub (Acacia farnesiana) of the pea family, native to tropical and subtropical America, having bipinnately compound leaves, small flower heads, and fragrant flowers that yield an essential oil used in perfumery.

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sweet acacia - tropical American thorny shrub or small tree; fragrant yellow flowers used in making perfumery huisache, mimosa bush, scented wattle, sweet wattle, Acacia farnesiana, cassie, flame tree genus Acacia - large genus of shrubs and trees and some woody vines of Central and South America, Africa, Australia and Polynesia: wattle; mimosa acacia - any of various spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Acacia