| NOUN | plant | Gentianella, genus Gentianella | genus of herbs with flowers that resemble gentian |
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| plant | gentianella, Gentiana acaulis | low-growing alpine plant cultivated for its dark glossy green leaves in basal rosettes and showy solitary bell-shaped blue flowers |
| Meaning | genus of herbs with flowers that resemble gentian; in some classifications included in genus Gentiana. | |
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| Synonym | genus Gentianella | |
| Member of | Gentianaceae, family Gentianaceae, gentian family | chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers |
| Members | agueweed, ague weed, five-flowered gentian, stiff gentian, Gentianella quinquefolia, Gentiana quinquefolia | gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers |
| felwort, gentianella amarella | gentian of Europe and China having creamy white flowers with fringed corollas | |
| Broader | dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus | genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination |
| Spanish | gentianella, genus gentianella | |
| Catalan | gentianella, genus gentianella | |
| Meaning | low-growing alpine plant cultivated for its dark glossy green leaves in basal rosettes and showy solitary bell-shaped blue flowers. | |
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| Synonym | Gentiana acaulis | |
| Broader | gentian | Any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera ... / genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis |
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