English > gentian: 1 sense > noun 1, plant| Meaning | Any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera ... / genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis. |
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| Member of | Gentianaceae, family Gentianaceae, gentian family | chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers |
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| Narrower | agueweed, ague weed, five-flowered gentian, stiff gentian, Gentianella quinquefolia, Gentiana quinquefolia | gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers |
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| closed gentian, blind gentian, bottle gentian, Gentiana andrewsii | gentian of eastern North America having tubular blue or white flowers that open little if at all |
| closed gentian, blind gentian, Gentiana clausa | Similar to Gentiana andrewsii but with larger / larger flowers |
| explorer's gentian, Gentiana calycosa | tufted sometimes sprawling perennial with blue flowers spotted with green |
| felwort, gentianella amarella | gentian of Europe and China having creamy white flowers with fringed corollas |
| fringed gentian | Any of various herbs of the genus Gentianopsis having the margins of the corolla lobes fringed |
| gentianella, Gentiana acaulis | low-growing alpine plant cultivated for its dark glossy green leaves in basal rosettes and showy solitary bell-shaped blue flowers |
| great yellow gentian, Gentiana lutea | Robust European perennial having clusters of yellow flowers |
| marsh gentian, calathian violet, Gentiana pneumonanthe | perennial Eurasian gentian with sky-blue funnel-shaped flowers of damp open heaths |
| soapwort gentian, Gentiana saponaria | Erect perennial of wet woodlands of North America having leaves and flower buds resembling those of soapwort |
| spurred gentian | Any of various plants of the genus Halenia having flowers with spurred lobes |
| striped gentian, Gentiana villosa | A perennial marsh gentian of eastern North America |
| Broader | flower | A plant cultivated for its blooms or blossoms |
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| Spanish | genciana |
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| Catalan | genciana |
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