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    FAMILY GENTIANACEAE

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentalsplay

    Synonyms:

    family Gentianaceae; gentian family; Gentianaceae

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("family Gentianaceae" 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 "family Gentianaceae"):

    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 ("family Gentianaceae" 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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