gentian family
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gen′tian fam`ily
n.
a family, Gentianaceae, of nonwoody plants with simple opposite leaves and usu. blue flowers with five united petals: includes centauries and other gentians.
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Noun | 1. | gentian family - chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination Gentianales, order Gentianales - an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceae 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 |
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