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Deep-blue alpine flower
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gentian
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Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ Among the plants are meadow clary, silver centaury and early gentian . ▪ Beds planted with summer filling of tiger lilies, carnations, sweet peas, poppies, marigolds, gentians and fuchsias. ▪ Convenient and effective dyes for ...
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Word definitions in WordNet
n. any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., genciane , from Old French genciane and directly from Latin gentiana , said by Pliny to be named for Gentius , king of ancient Illyria who discovered its properties. This likely is a folk-etymology, but the word may be Illyrian nonetheless, because ...
Usage examples of gentian.
So rode they down the Side, through deep peaceful meadows fair with white ox-eye daisies, bluebells and yellow goatsbeard and sea campion, deep-blue gentians, agrimony and wild marjoram, and pink clover and bindweed and great yellow buttercups feasting on the sun.
It was a superb morning,--sky like an immense blue gentian, air full of fragrance from a million bells of pink Linnaea, sunshine flattering the great river,--a morning when danger and death seemed incredible.
Pinks, blue gentian, and yellow stars bloomed on the grassy sward within the stones although whole stretches of ground consisted of dirt tamped down by a great weight now removed.
Tufts of grass and moth-white gentians grew in the loess-filled cracks.
And then there were all kinds of sweet flowers growing on the rocks-- bright green moss with pale pink, starry flowers, and soft belled gentians, more blue than the sky at its deepest, and pure white transparent lilies.
Wild flowers were scattered through the woods, white trilliums, yellow violets, rose pink hawthorn, while yellow jonquils and blue and yellow gentians dominated some of the higher meadows.
A deep, velvety royal blue, not the sky blue of the Bavarian gentians Lawrence was describing.
It came from the bunch of violets, gentians, and hepaticas, already faded, that Mother had placed there days ago on his arrival.
The first afternoon we were up here we went for a ride round Imogene basin, and were delighted with the wild flowers, which are quite innumerable--columbine, phloxes, blue gentian, dandelions, harebells, vetches, and fifty other species.
A bottle of bloat mixture, a trochar and cannula, a packet of gentian and mix vomica.
No Titian's feast of gentian, tawny brown, and alpen-rose could intoxicate the lover of those books, those papers, that great map.
Spruce and larch and arolla pine form a gentle border north and west, while higher up are fire lilies, purple gentians, alpine columbines.
Sudan black, stabilized physical developer, iodine, amido black, DFO and gentian violet, Magna-Brush.
Fresh Gentian root is largely used in Germany and Switzerland for the production of an alcoholic beverage.
When sliced longitudinally they have been put on the market as American Gentian, and when fresh, their properties closely resemble Gentiana Lutea, the European Yellow Gentian.