CALATHIAN VIOLET

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does calathian violet mean? 

• CALATHIAN VIOLET (noun)
  The noun CALATHIAN VIOLET has 1 sense:

1. perennial Eurasian gentian with sky-blue funnel-shaped flowers of damp open heaths

  Familiarity information: CALATHIAN VIOLET used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CALATHIAN VIOLET (noun)

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Meaning:

Perennial Eurasian gentian with sky-blue funnel-shaped flowers of damp open heaths

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Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

calathian violet; Gentiana pneumonanthe; marsh gentian

Hypernyms ("calathian violet" is a kind of...):

gentian (any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis)

Holonyms ("calathian violet" is a member of...):

Gentiana; genus Gentiana (type genus of the Gentianaceae; cosmopolitan genus of herbs nearly cosmopolitan in cool temperate regions; in some classifications includes genera Gentianopsis and Gentianella)