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UK
/dʒˈɛnʃən/
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[ US /ˈdʒɛnʃən/ ]
[ US /ˈdʒɛnʃən/ ]
NOUN
- any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis
How To Use gentian In A Sentence
- In addition the plicae/petal size relationship was of the Gentians sap onaria type.
- Historically, the most popular digestives, or digestifs, have been alcoholic bitters, which usually include angostura bark, cinchona bark (Cinchona spp.), bitter gentian root and/or quassia chips as the principal components.
- Some other wildflowers are white-flowered bog orchid, California grass-of-Parnassus, Sierra gentian, Plumas alpine aster, western sneezeweed, and the highly toxic western water hemlock.
- Methods To determine effects of different dose of corniculate spurgentian herb on contents of liver damaged mouse caused by carbon tetrachloride.
- We do not know what impulse sends up the water-lily from the stagnant ooze in glistening white, and lays a mauve mantle over the wistaria that feeds upon corruption; nor why two plants of the same genus in the same conditions should be so differently coloured as are the blue and yellow gentian. The Spring of Joy: A Little Book of Healing
- In harvest-time she made gentian beer for the men, and a kind of harvest cake, originally made for a four o'clock meal, which explains the word known as "fourses. The Argosy Vol. 51, No. 5, May, 1891
- For perennials, try coreopsis, gaillardia, gentian sage, ‘Homestead Purple’ verbena, penstemon, rudbeckia, Russian sage, statice, salvia, summer phlox, and ‘Victoria’ mealy-cup sage.
- We smile in winter full of freshness and moist, the enchantment apple , the red in opium poppy and blue of gentian dominate aesthetics although gorgeous but still would be decomposed.
- Now, gaudy flowers crowd the brooks - paintbrush, gentian, columbine.
- For blue choose from gentian sage, lobelia, mealycup sage, nemesia, petunia, or verbena.