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GENUS GENTIANELLA
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Genus of herbs with flowers that resemble gentian; in some classifications included in genus Gentiana
Synonyms:
Gentianella; genus Gentianella
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("genus 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 "genus 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 ("genus Gentianella" is a member of...):
family Gentianaceae; gentian family; Gentianaceae (chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals)
