GENTIANELLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Gentianella mean? 

• GENTIANELLA (noun)
  The noun GENTIANELLA has 2 senses:

1. genus of herbs with flowers that resemble gentian; in some classifications included in genus Gentiana

2. low-growing alpine plant cultivated for its dark glossy green leaves in basal rosettes and showy solitary bell-shaped blue flowers

  Familiarity information: GENTIANELLA used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENTIANELLA (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Genus of herbs with flowers that resemble gentian; in some classifications included in genus Gentiana

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Gentianella; genus Gentianella

Hypernyms ("Gentianella" is a kind of...):

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

Meronyms (members of "Gentianella"):

ague weed; agueweed; five-flowered gentian; Gentiana quinquefolia; Gentianella quinquefolia; stiff gentian (gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers)

felwort; gentianella amarella (gentian of Europe and China having creamy white flowers with fringed corollas)

Holonyms ("Gentianella" is a member of...):

family Gentianaceae; gentian family; Gentianaceae (chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Low-growing alpine plant cultivated for its dark glossy green leaves in basal rosettes and showy solitary bell-shaped blue flowers

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Gentiana acaulis; gentianella

Hypernyms ("gentianella" is a kind of...):

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