Originally: the plant Gentiana lutea, a tall, yellow-flowered herbaceous perennial native to Europe and western Asia, having roots which are used…

a medicinal plant (not identified, perhaps a gentian).

Gentian, of various species. Obsolete.

An old name for Gentian.

Gentiana lutea, and other species of gentian.

a name transferred from Pliny, identified with a gentian (Gentiana pneumonanthe).

A name of various plants having leaves arranged in the form of a cross, or whorl of four; esp. Galium cruciatum (also crosswort bedstraw); also of…

(a) a bell rung in harvest time; (b) a flower, the Autumn bell, Gentiana Pneumonanthe.

Originally: any of various small plants of the genus Gentiana or family Gentianaceae, typically alpine species with deep blue flowers, esp. Gentia…

A gentian (genus Gentiana (formerly Calathiana)). Obsolete. rare.

(a) a Eurasian gentian of damp heaths, Gentiana pneumonanthe (rare and decreasing in Britain), which has large deep blue flowers striped green on the…

Any of various plants with small round leaves; spec. A small North American plant with thick, roundish upper leaves, Obolaria virginica (family Ge…

U.S. regional. Any of several plants bearing pink flowers, esp. (a) the swamp azalea, Rhododendron viscosum; (b) (Texas) the prairie rose gentian, Sab…

soapwort gentian.

†(a) = sense 1; (b) U.S. a variety of gentian.

marsh gentian, Gentiana pneumonanthe; cf. autumn bell flower n.

A name for species of gentian. (Cf. lung-flower n. at lung, n. compounds 2.)

a herbaceous perennial, Gentiana asclepiadea, native to Europe and bearing deep blue or white flowers in axils along its curving stems.