Definition of Sweet sultan

1. Noun. Annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers.

Exact synonyms: Blessed Thistle, Cnicus Benedictus
Generic synonyms: Thistle
Group relationships: Cnicus, Genus Cnicus

2. Noun. Perennial of mountains of Iran and Iraq; cultivated for its fragrant rose-pink flowers.
Exact synonyms: Centaurea Imperialis
Generic synonyms: Flower
Group relationships: Centaurea, Genus Centaurea

3. Noun. Asian plant widely grown for its sweetly fragrant pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Centaurea.
Exact synonyms: Amberboa Moschata, Centaurea Moschata
Generic synonyms: Flower
Group relationships: Amberboa, Genus Amberboa

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweet Sultan

sweet potato vine
sweet potatoes
sweet reseda
sweet rocket
sweet roll
sweet sand verbena
sweet scabious
sweet science
sweet seventeen
sweet shop
sweet shrub
sweet sixteens
sweet sorghum
sweet spots
sweet sultan (current term)
sweet talk
sweet talker
sweet tooth
sweet tooths
sweet unicorn plant
sweet vermouth
sweet vetch
sweet violet
sweet wattle
sweet white violet
sweet williams
sweet woodruff
sweet wormwood

Literary usage of Sweet sultan

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Either of two garden-flowers, Centaurea mos- chata, the sweet sultan, with purple or white flowers, and (.'. suaveolens, the yellow sultan: both often ..."

2. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"Many of them are cultivated in our gardens : the most common, perhaps, is the Sultan-flower, or Sweet-sultan, a native of Persia, and commonly seen growing ..."

3. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"sweet sultan is a royal flower, and properly possesses a royal name. Blood brother to the Bachelor's Button, in it the family characteristics are enlarged, ..."

4. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1891)
"Either of two garden-flowers, Centaurea mos- chata, the sweet sultan, with purple or white flowers, and (.'. suaveolens, the yellow sultan: both often ..."

5. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"Many of them are cultivated in our gardens : the most common, perhaps, is the Sultan-flower, or Sweet-sultan, a native of Persia, and commonly seen growing ..."

6. Our Garden Flowers: A Popular Study of Their Native Lands, Their Life by Harriet Louise Keeler (1910)
"sweet sultan is a royal flower, and properly possesses a royal name. Blood brother to the Bachelor's Button, in it the family characteristics are enlarged, ..."

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