noun
chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals
• Syn: ↑Gentianaceae, ↑family Gentianaceae
• Hypernyms: ↑dicot family, ↑magnoliopsid family
• Member Holonyms: ↑Gentianales, ↑order Gentianales
• Member Meronyms:
↑Centaurium, ↑genus Centaurium, ↑Eustoma, ↑genus Eustoma, ↑Exacum, ↑genus Exacum, ↑Frasera, ↑genus Frasera, ↑Gentiana, ↑genus Gentiana, ↑gentian, ↑Gentianella, ↑genus Gentianella, ↑Gentianopsis, ↑genus Gentianopsis, ↑Halenia, ↑genus Halenia, ↑genus Sabbatia, ↑Swertia, ↑genus Swertia
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the plant family Gentianaceae, typified by herbaceous plants having simple opposite leaves, usually blue flowers with five united petals, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the closed gentian, fringed gentian, centaury, exacum, and marsh pink.
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gentian family,
a group of dicotyledonous plants, chiefly herbs, having showy, funnel-shaped flowers, stemless, opposite leaves, and bitter juice. The family includes the gentian, centaury, and buck bean.
Useful english dictionary. 2012.