gentian

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The dried roots and rhizome of a European gentian, Gentiana lutea, used as a tonic
Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet or blue flowers
{n} a plant, fellwort
Any one of a genus (Gentiana) of herbaceous plants with opposite leaves and a tubular four- or five-lobed corolla, usually blue, but sometimes white, yellow, or red
{i} type of plant
A gentian is a small plant with a blue or purple flower shaped like a bell which grows in mountain regions. a small plant with blue or purple flowers that grows in mountain areas (gentiana, perhaps from Gentius king of ancient Illyria, in Southern Europe, who is said to have discovered the use of the plant as a medicine)
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any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis
gentian violet
Also known as crystal violet, a chemical dye used in the Gram stain test, and is also a fungicide. Chemically: hexamethyl pararosaniline chloride, C25H30ClN3
gentian violet
Having a violet colour similar to the gentian flower
gentian violet
A violet colour similar to the gentian flower
gentian family
Family Gentianaceae (order Gentianales), composed of some 1,100 species of annual and perennial herbaceous plants and, rarely, shrubs, native mostly to northern temperate regions. The four or five united petals that make up the flower may be deeply divided; they overlap and are twisted in the bud. Some species are used in herbal remedies and in the making of dyes. Several species of gentians (genus Gentiana) bear attractive flowers and are cultivated as garden ornamentals. Gentians occur widely in moist meadows and woods
gentian violet
A dye used in microscopy as a biological stain and in medicine as a bactericide, fungicide, and anthelmintic
gentian violet
a green crystal (violet in water) used as a dye or stain or bactericide or fungicide or anthelmintic or burn treatment
closed gentian
gentian of eastern North America having tubular blue or white flowers that open little if at all similar to Gentiana andrewsii but with larger flowers
explorer's gentian
tufted sometimes sprawling perennial with blue flowers spotted with green; western North America
fringed gentian
A biennial or annual plant (Gentianopsis crinita) of eastern North America, having blue, bell-shaped flowers with fringed petals
fringed gentian
any of various herbs of the genus Gentianopsis having the margins of the corolla lobes fringed; sometimes included in genus Gentiana
gentians
plural of gentian
great yellow gentian
robust European perennial having clusters of yellow flowers
green gentian
tall herb with panicles of white flowers flushed with green; northwestern United States; sometimes placed in genus Swertia
horse gentian
Any of various plants of the genus Triosteum, having opposite leaves, small purplish-brown flowers, and leathery orange-yellow fruit. Also called feverwort
marsh gentian
perennial Eurasian gentian with sky-blue funnel-shaped flowers of damp open heaths
prairie gentian
one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers laving large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas
soapwort gentian
erect perennial of wet woodlands of North America having leaves and flower buds resembling those of soapwort
spurred gentian
any of various plants of the genus Halenia having flowers with spurred lobes
striped gentian
a perennial marsh gentian of eastern North America
tufted gentian
small blue-flowered fringed gentian of Sierra Nevada mountains
gentian
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