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GENTIANELLA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Low-growing alpine plant cultivated for its dark glossy green leaves in basal rosettes and showy solitary bell-shaped blue flowers
Synonyms:
Gentiana acaulis; gentianella
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("gentianella" is a kind of...):
gentian (any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Genus of herbs with flowers that resemble gentian; in some classifications included in genus Gentiana
Synonyms:
Gentianella; genus Gentianella
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("Gentianella" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "Gentianella"):
ague weed; agueweed; five-flowered gentian; Gentiana quinquefolia; Gentianella quinquefolia; stiff gentian (gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers)
felwort; gentianella amarella (gentian of Europe and China having creamy white flowers with fringed corollas)
Holonyms ("Gentianella" is a member of...):
family Gentianaceae; gentian family; Gentianaceae (chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals)
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