TULIP GENTIAN

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Meaning:

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

Synonyms:

bluebell; Eustoma grandiflorum; prairie gentian; tulip gentian

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("tulip gentian" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Holonyms ("tulip gentian" is a member of...):

Eustoma; genus Eustoma (small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South America)

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