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TULIP GENTIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tulip gentian mean?
• TULIP GENTIAN (noun)
The noun TULIP GENTIAN has 1 sense:
1. one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas
Familiarity information: TULIP GENTIAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
One of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
bluebell; Eustoma grandiflorum; prairie gentian; tulip gentian
Hypernyms ("tulip gentian" is a kind of...):
wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)
Holonyms ("tulip gentian" is a member of...):
Eustoma; genus Eustoma (small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South America)
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