Crossword clues for gentian
gentian
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Gentian \Gen"tian\ (j[e^]n"shan or j[e^]n"sh[i^]*an), n. [OE. genciane, F. gentiane, L. gentiana, fr. Gentius, an Illyrian king, said to have discovered its properties.] (Bot.) 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. See Illust. of Capsule.
Note: Many species are found on the highest mountains of Europe, Asia, and America, and some are prized for their beauty, as the Alpine ( Gentiana verna, Gentiana Bavarica, and Gentiana excisa), and the American fringed gentians ( Gentiana crinita and Gentiana detonsa). Several are used as tonics, especially the bitter roots of Gentiana lutea, the officinal gentian of the pharmacopoeias.
Horse gentian, fever root.
Yellow gentian (Bot.), the officinal gentian ( Gentiana lutea). See Bitterwort.
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 the suffix -an frequently occurs in Illyrian words.
Wiktionary
n. 1 Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet or blue flowers. 2 The dried roots and rhizome of a European gentian, (taxlink Gentiana lutea species noshow=1), used as a tonic.
WordNet
n. any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis
Wikipedia
A gentian is a plant that has terminal tubular flowers.
Gentian may also refer to:
- Gentian violet, an antifungal agent
- HMS Gentian (K90), a Royal Navy Flower-class corvette
- Tulip gentian, Eustoma, a herbaceous annual
- Dwarf gentian, Gentianella
- Gentian (spirit), a distilled alcoholic beverage
- Gentian, Michigan, a community in the United States
- USCGC Gentian (WIX-290), a Cactus class seagoing buoy tender
People with the given name Gentian:
- Gentian Hajdari (born 1975), Albanian football player
- Gentian Stojku (born 1974), Albanian football midfielder
- Saint Gentian (died 287), French Christian martyr
Gentian (also: Gentian spirit or Gentian schnapps) is a distilled alcoholic beverage originating in the Alpine region, produced using gentian root.
Many curative properties are attributed to this aromatic and bitter spirit; it is often taken for digestive problems.
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.