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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.

2. Noun. Perennial of mountains of Iran and Iraq; cultivated for its fragrant rose-pink flowers.

3. Noun. Asian plant widely grown for its sweetly fragrant pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Centaurea.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Sweet Sultan

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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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