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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 flowersplay

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


 Dictionary entry details 


GREAT YELLOW GENTIAN (noun)


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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