thistle vs sweet sultan

sweet sultan vs thistle

thistle and sweet sultan both are nouns.

Word	Noun	Adjective	Verb	Adverb
thistle	Yes	No	No	No
sweet sultan	Yes	No	No	No

As nouns, sweet sultan is a hyponym of thistle; that is, sweet sultan is a word with a more specific, narrower meaning than thistle:

thistle: any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves
sweet sultan: annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers

Other hyponyms of thistle include Carduus crispus, welted thistle, Carduus nutans, musk thistle, nodding thistle, carline thistle, plume thistle, plumed thistle, Cirsium discolor, field thistle, Cirsium helenioides, Cirsium heterophylum, melancholy thistle, blessed thistle, Cnicus benedictus, cotton thistle, Onopordon acanthium, Onopordum acanthium, Scotch thistle, woolly thistle, golden thistle.

thistle (noun)	sweet sultan (noun)
any of numerous plants of the family Compositae and especially of the genera Carduus and Cirsium and Onopordum having prickly-edged leaves	Asian plant widely grown for its sweetly fragrant pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Centaurea
	perennial of mountains of Iran and Iraq; cultivated for its fragrant rose-pink flowers
	annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers

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