Gentiana andrewsii
- noun
- Specialized
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gentiana andrewsii
- Botanists admire the unique closed flowers of Gentiana andrewsii found in wet meadows.
Examples
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The Gentiana andrewsii blooms in late summer and early autumn along the forest edge.
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We spotted several Gentiana andrewsii plants during our hike in the Appalachian Mountains.
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The Gentiana andrewsii blooms beautifully in late summer.
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Have you seen the Gentiana andrewsii in the garden?
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Botanists admire the unique closed flowers of Gentiana andrewsii found in wet meadows.
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The Gentiana andrewsii blooms in late summer and early autumn along the forest edge.
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We spotted several Gentiana andrewsii plants during our hike in the Appalachian Mountains.
Synonyms
A plant from eastern North America with blue or white tube-shaped flowers that stay mostly closed
A North American wildflower with tube-shaped blue, white, or purple flowers that stay mostly closed
A plant with blue or purple flowers shaped like a tube that stay mostly closed
Surface Forms
Morphology
Gentiana + andrewsii
The first element 'Gentiana' names a plant genus, so a learner who knows that could infer the phrase refers to a kind of gentian; however 'andrewsii' is a Latinized specific epithet (not a lexical word) and gives no descriptive meaning beyond indicating a named species. Because recognizing the binomial as 'a species of Gentiana' requires some knowledge of taxonomic naming conventions and does not yield the detailed descriptive sense in the definition, the transparency is partial.
Etymology
Gentiana andrewsii likely honours a naturalist called 'Andrews' because the second part andrewsii is a name, and the first part Gentiana goes back to an old king who used the plant for medicine. You can remember this species by its blue, tube-shaped flowers that stay mostly closed like tiny bottles, so people often call it the 'bottle gentian' and think of its shut flowers.
