gentian

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Gentiana brachyphylla, a gentian.

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Noun

gentian (plural gentians)

1. Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet or blue flowers.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, Crime out of Mind,^[1], chapter 1:

     On the cover of the leaflet advertising the Alpenrose Gasthof in Zirl am Gurgl […] there is a decorative picture of a young woman. […] She has bright flaxen hair and laughing eyes of the same hue as the gentians in the meadow beyond the inn.

2. The dried roots and rhizome of a European gentian, Gentiana lutea, used as a tonic.

Derived terms

• horse gentian

Translations

Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae

• Polish: goryczka (pl) f

• Russian: горечавка (ru) (gorečávka) f

The dried roots and rhizome of a European gentian

• Russian: горечавка (ru) (gorečávka) f

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• Esperanto: genciano (eo)
• French: gentiane (fr) f
• German: Enzian (de) m
• Ido: genciano (io)

• Italian: genziana (it) f
• Serbo-Croatian: сириштара f

Anagrams

• anteing
• antigen