Library / English Dictionary

SWEET SULTAN

Pronunciation (US):

(GB):

 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:

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...):

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)

Credits