noun
1. Asian plant widely grown for its sweetly fragrant pink flowers; sometimes placed in genus Centaurea
• Syn: ↑Amberboa moschata, ↑Centaurea moschata
• Hypernyms: ↑flower
• Member Holonyms: ↑Amberboa, ↑genus Amberboa
2. annual of Mediterranean to Portugal having hairy stems and minutely spiny-toothed leaves and large heads of yellow flowers
• Syn: ↑blessed thistle, ↑Cnicus benedictus
• Hypernyms: ↑thistle
• Member Holonyms: ↑Cnicus, ↑genus Cnicus
3. perennial of mountains of Iran and Iraq; cultivated for its fragrant rose-pink flowers
• Syn: ↑Centaurea imperialis
• Hypernyms: ↑flower
• Member Holonyms: ↑Centaurea, ↑genus Centaurea
Useful english dictionary. 2012.