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GREAT YELLOW GENTIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does great yellow gentian mean?
• GREAT YELLOW GENTIAN (noun)
The noun GREAT YELLOW GENTIAN has 1 sense:
1. robust European perennial having clusters of yellow flowers
Familiarity information: GREAT YELLOW GENTIAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Robust European perennial having clusters of yellow flowers
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Gentiana lutea; great yellow gentian
Hypernyms ("great yellow gentian" is a kind of...):
gentian (any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis)
Holonyms ("great yellow gentian" 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)
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