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Gentian   /dʒˈɛnʃən/   Listen
Gentian

noun
1.
Any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis.



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"Gentian" Quotes from Famous Books



... before his return to Mrs. Wharton's from the banking-house at 4 P.M. Mrs. Wharton then offered him some lager beer, and, partly at his own suggestion, put into it something out of a bottle labeled "Gentian Bitters." He found the liquid so bitter that he took but ...
— Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science - April, 1873, Vol. XI, No. 25. • Various

... of extract of gentian and the same of purified green vitriol (sulphate of iron) together, and divide ...
— Enquire Within Upon Everything - The Great Victorian Domestic Standby • Anonymous

... wander with me through the fields where the blue-fringed gentian blooms with the pink bell-heather, and the bridal torch nods from the brook-side, bending its stately head to the west wind that sweeps ever in from the sea with touch as soft as of a woman's hand? Flat and uninteresting? Yes, if you will. If one sees only the fields. My children ...
— The Making of an American • Jacob A. Riis



Words linked to "Gentian" :   felwort, agueweed, calathian violet, flower, ague weed



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