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GENTIAN FAMILY
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals
Synonyms:
family Gentianaceae; gentian family; Gentianaceae
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("gentian family" is a kind of...):
dicot family; magnoliopsid family (family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "gentian family"):
Centaurium; genus Centaurium (genus of low-growing herbs mostly of northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthers)
Eustoma; genus Eustoma (small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South America)
Exacum; genus Exacum (genus of tropical Asiatic and African plants: especially Persian violets)
Frasera; genus Frasera (genus of North American herbs: columbo; includes some species sometimes placed in genus Swertia)
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)
gentian (any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis)
Gentianella; genus Gentianella (genus of herbs with flowers that resemble gentian; in some classifications included in genus Gentiana)
Gentianopsis; genus Gentianopsis (genus of fringed gentians; in some classifications included in genus Gentiana)
genus Halenia; Halenia (genus of herbs of Eurasia and the Americas: spurred gentians)
genus Sabbatia (genus of smooth slender North American herbs with showy flowers)
genus Swertia; Swertia (genus of herbs of mountains of North America and Eurasia and Africa)
Holonyms ("gentian family" is a member of...):
Gentianales; order Gentianales (an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceae)
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