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GENTIANA

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Meaning:

Type genus of the Gentianaceae; cosmopolitan genus of herbs nearly cosmopolitan in cool temperate regions; in some classifications includes genera Gentianopsis and Gentianella

Synonyms:

Gentiana; genus Gentiana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Gentiana" is a kind of...):

dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "Gentiana"):

Gentiana lutea; great yellow gentian (robust European perennial having clusters of yellow flowers)

calathian violet; Gentiana pneumonanthe; marsh gentian (perennial Eurasian gentian with sky-blue funnel-shaped flowers of damp open heaths)

Holonyms ("Gentiana" is a member of...):

family Gentianaceae; gentian family; Gentianaceae (chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals)

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