gentian family

Noun
  1. Chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers;
    Some are cultivated as ornamentals (synset 112310633)
    is a type of: dicot family, magnoliopsid family - family of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination
    member holonym:
    • centaurium, genus centaurium - genus of low-growing herbs mostly of northern hemisphere having flowers with protruding spirally twisted anthers
    • eustoma, genus eustoma - small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South America
    • exacum, genus exacum - genus of tropical Asiatic and African plants: especially Persian violets
    • frasera, genus frasera - genus of North American herbs: columbo; includes some species sometimes placed in genus Swertia
    • gentiana, genus gentiana - type genus of the Gentianaceae; cosmopolitan genus of herbs nearly cosmopolitan in cool temperate regions; in some classifications includes genera Gentianopsis and Gentianella
    • gentian - any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis
    • gentianella, genus gentianella - genus of herbs with flowers that resemble gentian; in some classifications included in genus Gentiana
    • gentianopsis, genus gentianopsis - genus of fringed gentians; in some classifications included in genus Gentiana
    • genus halenia, halenia - genus of herbs of Eurasia and the Americas: spurred gentians
    • genus sabbatia - genus of smooth slender North American herbs with showy flowers
    • genus swertia, swertia - genus of herbs of mountains of North America and Eurasia and Africa
    belongs to: gentianales, order gentianales - an order of dicotyledonous plants having gamopetalous flowers; Gentianaceae; Apocynaceae; Asclepiadaceae; Loganiaceae; Oleaceae; Salvadoraceae
    same as: family gentianaceae, gentianaceae

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