GENUS GENTIANA
Dictionary entry overview: What does genus Gentiana mean?
• GENUS GENTIANA (noun)
The noun GENUS GENTIANA has 1 sense:
1. type genus of the Gentianaceae; cosmopolitan genus of herbs nearly cosmopolitan in cool temperate regions; in some classifications includes genera Gentianopsis and Gentianella
Familiarity information: GENUS GENTIANA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENUS GENTIANA (noun)
Meaning:
Type genus of the Gentianaceae; cosmopolitan genus of herbs nearly cosmopolitan in cool temperate regions; in some classifications includes genera Gentianopsis and Gentianella
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Gentiana; genus Gentiana
Hypernyms ("genus Gentiana" is a kind of...):
dicot genus; magnoliopsid genus (genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination)
Meronyms (members of "genus Gentiana"):
Gentiana lutea; great yellow gentian (robust European perennial having clusters of yellow flowers)
calathian violet; Gentiana pneumonanthe; marsh gentian (perennial Eurasian gentian with sky-blue funnel-shaped flowers of damp open heaths)
Holonyms ("genus Gentiana" is a member of...):
family Gentianaceae; gentian family; Gentianaceae (chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals)