sweet sultan

Questions about sweet sultan

What does sweet sultan mean?

sweet sultan means "annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for sweet sultan?

Close synonyms include blessed thistle, Cnicus benedictus, Centaurea imperialis, Amberboa moschata, Centaurea moschata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is sweet sultan a common word?

sweet sultan is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.