gentian : Idioms & Phrases

• noun any of various tall perennial herbs constituting the genus Frasera; widely distributed in warm dry upland areas of California, Oregon, and Washington
  American columbo; deer's-ear; columbo; deer's-ears; pyramid plant.
  

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• noun similar to Gentiana andrewsii but with larger flowers
  blind gentian; Gentiana clausa.
  
• noun gentian of eastern North America having tubular blue or white flowers that open little if at all
  blind gentian; Gentiana andrewsii; bottle gentian.
  

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• noun gentian of eastern North America having tubular blue or white flowers that open little if at all
  blind gentian; Gentiana andrewsii; bottle gentian.
  

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• noun similar to Gentiana andrewsii but with larger flowers
  blind gentian; Gentiana clausa.
  
• noun gentian of eastern North America having tubular blue or white flowers that open little if at all
  blind gentian; Gentiana andrewsii; bottle gentian.
  

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• noun tufted sometimes sprawling perennial with blue flowers spotted with green; western North America
  Gentiana calycosa.
  

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• noun gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers
  Gentiana quinquefolia; Gentianella quinquefolia; agueweed; five-flowered gentian; ague weed.
  

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• noun any of various herbs of the genus Gentianopsis having the margins of the corolla lobes fringed; sometimes included in genus Gentiana
  

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• noun chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals
  Gentianaceae; family Gentianaceae.
  

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• noun a green crystal (violet in water) used as a dye or stain or bactericide or fungicide or anthelmintic or burn treatment
  crystal violet.
  

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• noun robust European perennial having clusters of yellow flowers
  Gentiana lutea.
  

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• noun tall herb with panicles of white flowers flushed with green; northwestern United States; sometimes placed in genus Swertia
  Swertia speciosa; Frasera speciosa.
  

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• noun coarse weedy American perennial herb with large usually perfoliate leaves and purple or dull red flowers
  Triostium perfoliatum; feverroot; wild coffee; tinker's root.
  

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• fever root.
• (Bot.), fever root.

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• noun perennial Eurasian gentian with sky-blue funnel-shaped flowers of damp open heaths
  Gentiana pneumonanthe; calathian violet.
  

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• noun one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas
  prairie gentian; Eustoma grandiflorum; bluebell.
  

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• noun erect perennial of wet woodlands of North America having leaves and flower buds resembling those of soapwort
  Gentiana saponaria.
  

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• noun any of various plants of the genus Halenia having flowers with spurred lobes
  

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• noun gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers
  Gentiana quinquefolia; Gentianella quinquefolia; agueweed; five-flowered gentian; ague weed.
  

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• noun a perennial marsh gentian of eastern North America
  Gentiana villosa.
  

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• noun small blue-flowered fringed gentian of Sierra Nevada mountains
  Gentiana holopetala; Gentianopsis holopetala.
  

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• noun one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas
  prairie gentian; Eustoma grandiflorum; bluebell.
  

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• (Bot.), the officinal gentian (Gentiana lutea). See Bitterwort.

Webster 1913