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Gentian

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Noun

1. gentian

any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis

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Gentian

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noun
1. 
any gentianaceous plant of the genera Gentiana or Gentianella, having blue, yellow, white, or red showy flowers
2. 
the bitter-tasting dried rhizome and roots of Gentiana lutea (European or yellow gentian), which can be used as a tonic
3. 
any of several similar plants, such as the horse gentian

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Gentian

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adjective
1. 
designating a family (Gentianaceae, order Gentianales) of dicotyledonous plants, including the fringed gentians and the closed gentians
noun
2. 
any of a large genus (Gentiana) of plants of the gentian family, with blue, white, red, or yellow flowers
3. 
the bitter root of the yellow gentian (G. lutea), used as a gastrointestinal tonic

Webster’s New World College Dictionary, 4th Edition. Copyright © 2010 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved.

Gentian

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n.
1. Any of numerous plants of the family Gentianaceae and especially the genus Gentiana, characteristically having opposite leaves and showy, often blue flowers.
2. The dried rhizome and roots of a yellow-flowered European gentian, G. lutea, sometimes used as a tonic.

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