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TULIP GENTIAN
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I. (noun)
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
Synonyms:
bluebell; Eustoma grandiflorum; prairie gentian; tulip gentian
Classified under:
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)