GENTIAN FAMILY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does gentian family mean? 

• GENTIAN FAMILY (noun)
  The noun GENTIAN FAMILY has 1 sense:

1. chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals

  Familiarity information: GENTIAN FAMILY used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENTIAN FAMILY (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

family Gentianaceae; gentian family; Gentianaceae

Hypernyms ("gentian family" is a kind of...):

dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)

Meronyms (members of "gentian family"):

Centaurium; genus Centaurium (genus of low-growing herbs mostly of northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthers)

Eustoma; genus Eustoma (small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South America)

Exacum; genus Exacum (genus of tropical Asiatic and African plants: especially Persian violets)

Frasera; genus Frasera (genus of North American herbs: columbo; includes some species sometimes placed in genus Swertia)

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)

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

Gentianella; genus Gentianella (genus of herbs with flowers that resemble gentian; in some classifications included in genus Gentiana)

Gentianopsis; genus Gentianopsis (genus of fringed gentians; in some classifications included in genus Gentiana)

genus Halenia; Halenia (genus of herbs of Eurasia and the Americas: spurred gentians)

genus Sabbatia (genus of smooth slender North American herbs with showy flowers)

genus Swertia; Swertia (genus of herbs of mountains of North America and Eurasia and Africa)

Holonyms ("gentian family" is a member of...):

Gentianales; order Gentianales (an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceae)