sweet scabious sweets·ca·bious uncommon noun 1. Old World annual having fragrant purple to deep crimson flower heads; naturalized in United States Synonymssweet scabiouspincushion flowermournful widowScabiosa atropurpurea Related words Broader terms scabious WordNet 2.1 (Princeton University). WordNet 2.1 Copyright Princeton University. All rights reserved.
