sweet sultan

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

• noun An annual plant (Amberboa moschata) in the composite family, native to southwest Asia, widely cultivated for its fragrant white, pink, purple, or yellow flower heads.

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• noun annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers
• noun perennial of mountains of Iran and Iraq; cultivated for its fragrant rose-pink flowers
• noun Asian plant widely grown for its sweetly fragrant pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Centaurea