noun
perennial Eurasian gentian with sky-blue funnel-shaped flowers of damp open heaths
• Syn: ↑calathian violet, ↑Gentiana pneumonanthe
• Hypernyms: ↑gentian
• Member Holonyms: ↑Gentiana, ↑genus Gentiana
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noun1. : a perennial Eurasian gentian (Gentiana pneumonanthe) having linear leaves and sky-blue flowers with an obconic corolla tube and occurring chiefly in damp open heaths
2. : any of several No. American gentians that occur chiefly or exclusively in wet areas
Useful english dictionary. 2012.