gentiana : Idioms & Phrases

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gentiana acaulis

  • noun low-growing alpine plant cultivated for its dark glossy green leaves in basal rosettes and showy solitary bell-shaped blue flowers
    gentianella.
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gentiana andrewsii

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

  • noun tufted sometimes sprawling perennial with blue flowers spotted with green; western North America
    explorer's gentian.
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gentiana clausa

  • noun similar to Gentiana andrewsii but with larger flowers
    blind gentian; closed gentian.
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gentiana crinita

  • noun tall widely distributed fringed gentian of eastern North America having violet-blue or white fringed flowers
    Gentianopsis crinita.
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gentiana detonsa

  • noun medium-tall fringed gentian with pale-blue to blue-purple flowers; circumboreal in distribution
    Gentianopsis detonsa.
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gentiana holopetala

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

  • noun robust European perennial having clusters of yellow flowers
    great yellow gentian.
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gentiana pneumonanthe

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

  • noun small blue-flowered fringed gentian of east central North America
    Gentianopsid procera.
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gentiana quinquefolia

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

  • noun erect perennial of wet woodlands of North America having leaves and flower buds resembling those of soapwort
    soapwort gentian.
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gentiana thermalis

  • noun small blue-flowered fringed gentian of western United States (Rocky Mountains) especially around hot springs in Yellowstone National Park
    Gentianopsis thermalis.
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gentiana villosa

  • noun a perennial marsh gentian of eastern North America
    striped gentian.
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genus gentiana

  • noun type genus of the Gentianaceae; cosmopolitan genus of herbs nearly cosmopolitan in cool temperate regions; in some classifications includes genera Gentianopsis and Gentianella
    Gentiana.
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