gentian
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- noun
- /ˈdʒɛnʃən/
- Specialized
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genciana
- The flowers of the gentian spread their petals wide, revealing to all a curving white style and three large stamens.
- Gentian violet
- gentian purple
- yellow gentian
If N is unable to evoke frost, we will not have gentians, we will not have grasses, we will not have yak.
- If N is unable to evoke frost, we will not have gentians, we will not have grasses, we will not have yak.
Examples
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Then we apply gentian violet as a drying agent.
Academic text (2003) -
Eyes as blue as gentian petals.
Fiction book (2002) -
So she painted my head with gentian violet.
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A pink gentian grows in southern Africa, which is pollinated by handsome furry carpenter bees.
Blog text (32) -
She brought us onions, garlic on wheat bread, bitter gentian, and wormwood.
Academic text (2011) -
The river I had followed from the gentian-splashed flats at Hawk's Rest had enveloped me with winds, sounds, and smells.
Academic text (2007) -
Allie would have remembered someone with eyes the wet violet color of prairie gentians.
Fiction book (2001) -
Other clinical studies have found clotrimazole to be the most effective antifungal agent in vivo, followed by gentian violet and nystatin.
Academic text (2008) -
Methods to control infection, otorrhea, and granulation tissue with gentian violet, antiseptic and antibiotic drops, and systemic antibiotics are similar to those used for treating CSOM.
Academic text (2002) -
In the garden, the beautiful gentian flowers bloomed vibrantly under the summer sun.
Synonyms
A group of flowering plants with usually blue, trumpet-shaped flowers in cooler parts of the world
Compounds
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A plant that lives many years and grows in wet open land with bright blue funnel-shaped flowers
A North American wildflower with tube-shaped blue, white, or purple flowers that stay mostly closed
A plant from eastern North America with blue or white tube-shaped flowers that stay mostly closed
A plant with blue or purple flowers shaped like a tube that stay mostly closed
A tall plant that lives for many years and grows on dry hills in western North America
- Specialized
A plant that lives many years with blue flowers spotted with green in mountain meadows
A small wild plant from eastern North America with clusters of bristly blue flowers
- Specialized
A group of mostly small plants with soft stems and bright funnel-shaped flowers
- Specialized
A purple dye used to stain lab slides and treat small skin infections
- Specialized
A plant with clusters of small bristly blue flowers native to eastern North America
A blue-violet wildflower with stripes that grows in wet meadows in eastern North America
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Etymology
Gentian is named after an ancient king called Gentius, who lived where the plant grows and was said to use it as a 'medicine'. That's why gentian roots are still used in herbal 'medicine' and in bitter drinks, and why the name now refers to the blue, showy plant itself.