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Sultana bird

Sultana \Sul*ta"na\, n. [It.]

  1. The wife of a sultan; a sultaness.

  2. pl. A kind of seedless raisin produced near Smyrna in Asiatic Turkey.

    Sultana bird (Zo["o]l.), the hyacinthine, or purple, gallinule. See Illust. under Gallinule.