GENTIAN
\d͡ʒˈɛnʃən], \dʒˈɛnʃən], \dʒ_ˈɛ_n_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of GENTIAN
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 2010 - Medical Dictionary Database
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1898 - Warner's pocket medical dictionary of today.
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1846 - Medical lexicon: a dictionary of medical science
- 1898 - American pocket medical dictionary
- 1916 - Appleton's medical dictionary
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis
By Princeton University
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any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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Any one of a genus (Gentiana) of herbaceous plants with opposite leaves and a tubular four- or five-lobed corolla, usually blue, but sometimes white, yellow, or red. See Illust. of Capsule.
By Oddity Software
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Any one of a genus (Gentiana) of herbaceous plants with opposite leaves and a tubular four- or five-lobed corolla, usually blue, but sometimes white, yellow, or red. See Illust. of Capsule.
By Noah Webster.
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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A bitter herb, some kinds of which have tonic roots; a variety of this herb which has beautiful, fringed, blue flowers.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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A plant the root of which is used in medicine, said to have been brought into use by Gentius, king of Illyria, conquered by the Romans in 167 B.C.
By Daniel Lyons
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A flowering plant of various species, as the fringed gentian of America, with blue, delicately fringed flowers.
By James Champlin Fernald
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From Gentius, King of Illyria, who used some species medicinally), Gentiana lutea, Triosteum-g. Blue, Gentiana catesbaei-g. Catesbian, Gentiana catesbaei-g. Horse, Triosteum-g. White, Laserpitium latifolium-g. Southern, Gentiana catesbaei-g. White, Triosteum-g. Yellow, Gentiana lutea, see Calumba.
By Robley Dunglison
By Willam Alexander Newman Dorland
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Of the U. S. Ph. and Br. Ph., the root of Gentiana lutea; it is a stomachic bitter, and is used in diseases associated with atonic dyspepsia. Erythraea centaurium.
By Smith Ely Jelliffe
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