GENUS GENTIANELLA

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Gentianella mean? 

• GENUS GENTIANELLA (noun)
  The noun GENUS GENTIANELLA has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: GENUS GENTIANELLA used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• GENUS GENTIANELLA (noun)

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

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