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MARSH GENTIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does marsh gentian mean?
• MARSH GENTIAN (noun)
The noun MARSH GENTIAN has 1 sense:
1. perennial Eurasian gentian with sky-blue funnel-shaped flowers of damp open heaths
Familiarity information: MARSH GENTIAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Perennial Eurasian gentian with sky-blue funnel-shaped flowers of damp open heaths
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
calathian violet; Gentiana pneumonanthe; marsh gentian
Hypernyms ("marsh gentian" is a kind of...):
gentian (any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis)
Holonyms ("marsh 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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