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SWEET SULTAN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Asian plant widely grown for its sweetly fragrant pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Centaurea
Synonyms:
Amberboa moschata; Centaurea moschata; sweet sultan
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("sweet sultan" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Holonyms ("sweet sultan" is a member of...):
Amberboa; genus Amberboa (herbs of Mediterranean to central Asia cultivated for their flowers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Perennial of mountains of Iran and Iraq; cultivated for its fragrant rose-pink flowers
Synonyms:
Centaurea imperialis; sweet sultan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("sweet sultan" is a kind of...):
flower (a plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms)
Holonyms ("sweet sultan" is a member of...):
Centaurea; genus Centaurea (knapweed; star thistle)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers
Synonyms:
blessed thistle; Cnicus benedictus; sweet sultan
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("sweet sultan" is a kind of...):
thistle (any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves)
Holonyms ("sweet sultan" is a member of...):
Cnicus; genus Cnicus (one species: blessed thistle)
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