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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 flowersplay

    Synonyms:

    Gentiana acaulis; gentianella

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    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 Gentianaplay

    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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