gentian in English

noun

1

a plant of temperate and mountainous regions, typically with violet or vivid blue trumpet-shaped flowers. Many kinds are cultivated as ornamentals, especially as arctic alpines, and some are of medicinal use.

As we climb, the maze of trees, ferns, and blueberry bushes gives way to subalpine meadows painted with purple lupine, pale blue gentians , crimson columbine, and yellow arnica.

Use "gentian" in a sentence

1. 1 Trumpet gentian

2. Gentiana asclepiadea L.: Willow gentian absolute / Willow gentian extract/ Willow gentian tincture

3. Other notable species include a variety of plants such as Bunchflower, closed gentian, downy gentian and Turk's cap lily.

4. Use of gentian violet in treatment of atopic dermatitis

5. Another liqueur is genziana, a soft distillate of gentian roots.

6. A butterfly visits a blue marsh gentian and deposits her eggs

7. 24 Among the plants are meadow clary, silver centaury and early gentian.

8. 14 Convenient and effective dyes for introducing into water flows include potassium permanganate, gentian violet, and methyl blue.

9. In all cases, almost 50% of the gentian violet taken up by the cells was membrane-bound.

10. Within days it will mate, and soon it will begin its search for a tall blue marsh gentian.

11. Buck bean definition, a bog plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, of the gentian family, having narrow clusters of white or pink flowers

12. After mating has taken place, the female butterfly looks for a marsh gentian that is taller than the surrounding vegetation.

13. Buck bean definition, a bog plant, Menyanthes trifoliata, of the gentian family, having narrow clusters of white or pink flowers

14. 26 Those identical findings reveal that the drainage of tear and diluted Gentian Violet are facilitated by inspiration rather than by expiration.

15. Finally, Salers ($20) and Suze ($30) are a couple of spirit-based high-gentian Aperitifs, dry and lightly vegetal and almost as intense as Campari

16. The Assafoetida was mixed with an equal part of powdered yellow gentian, and this was given to the extent of about 8 grains a day in the food.

17. Botanizing and lunch! As a result, my plant list was soon expanding with new names like New York aster, flat-topped aster, pearly everlasting, closed gentian, Canada goldenrod, and lance-leaved goldenrod

18. Highly popular since its introduction 50 years ago, Anchusa azurea 'Loddon Royalist' (Italian Bugloss) is a biennial or short-lived perennial boasting loose clusters of tiny rich gentian-blue flowers, resembling those of forget-me-nots

19. angelica (Angelica spp.), belladonna (Atropa spp.), camomile (Matricaria spp.), cumin (Carum spp.), digitalis (Digitalis spp.), gentian (Gentiana spp.), hyssop (Hyssopus spp.), jasmine (Jasminum spp.), lavender and lavandin (Lavandula spp.), marjoram (Origanum spp.), melissa (Melissa spp.), mint (Mentha spp.), poppy (Papaver spp.), periwinkle (Vinca spp.), psyllium (seed) (Psyllium spp.), saffron (Curcuma spp.), sage (Salvia spp.), marigold (Calendula spp.), valerian (Valeriana spp.), etc.

20. Apart from ewe’s milk, the feed ration, i.e. nutritional intake of Lika Curly lambs grazing on Lika’s meadows and pastures, is composed of the following plant species: Bromus erectus (erect brome), Scorzonera villosa, Chrysopogon gryllus (scented grass), Festuca pseudovina (hard fescue), Dichantium ischaemum (yellow bluestem), Satureo edraianthetum, Filipendula hexapetala (dropwort), Lotus corniculatus (common bird’s-foot trefoil), Leontodon hispidus (rough hawkbit), Sanguisorba muricata (small burnet), Eryngium amethystinum (amethyst eryngo), Sesleria tenuifolia, Trinia carniolica, Gentiana symphyandra (great yellow gentian) and Genista holopetala (broom).