Meaning Of The Word Gentian

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gentian
countable noun: A gentian is a small plant with a blue or purple flower shaped like a bell which grows in mountain regions.

gentian in American English
any of a large genus (Gentiana) of plants of the gentian family, with blue, white, red, or yellow flowers
designating a family (Gentianaceae, order Gentianales) of dicotyledonous plants, including the fringed gentians and the closed gentians
noun: any of several plants of the genera Gentiana, Gentianella, and Gentianopsis, having usually blue, or sometimes yellow, white, or red, flowers, as the fringed gentian of North America, or Gentiana lutea, of Europe

gentian in British English
noun: any gentianaceous plant of the genera Gentiana or Gentianella, having blue, yellow, white, or red showy flowers

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