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EXPLORER'S GENTIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does explorer's gentian mean?
• EXPLORER'S GENTIAN (noun)
The noun EXPLORER'S GENTIAN has 1 sense:
1. tufted sometimes sprawling perennial with blue flowers spotted with green; western North America
Familiarity information: EXPLORER'S GENTIAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Tufted sometimes sprawling perennial with blue flowers spotted with green; western North America
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
explorer's gentian; Gentiana calycosa
Hypernyms ("explorer's gentian" is a kind of...):
gentian (any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis)
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