| sweet sultan 
 
 1. Asian plant widely grown for its sweetly fragrant pink flowers;
 sometimes placed in genus Centaurea
 • Syn:
 Amberboa moschata, Centaurea moschata
 • Hypernyms:
 flower
 • Member Holonyms:
 Amberboa, genus Amberboa
 2. annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers
 • Syn:
 blessed thistle, Cnicus benedictus
 • Hypernyms:
 thistle
 • Member Holonyms:
 Cnicus, genus Cnicus
 3. perennial of mountains of Iran and Iraq;
 cultivated for its fragrant rose-pink flowers
 • Syn:
 Centaurea imperialis
 • Hypernyms:
 flower
 • Member Holonyms:
 Centaurea, genus Centaurea
 
 
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