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TUFTED GENTIAN
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Dictionary entry overview: What does tufted gentian mean?
• TUFTED GENTIAN (noun)
The noun TUFTED GENTIAN has 1 sense:
1. small blue-flowered fringed gentian of Sierra Nevada mountains
Familiarity information: TUFTED GENTIAN used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small blue-flowered fringed gentian of Sierra Nevada mountains
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Gentiana holopetala; Gentianopsis holopetala; tufted gentian
Hypernyms ("tufted gentian" is a kind of...):
fringed gentian (any of various herbs of the genus Gentianopsis having the margins of the corolla lobes fringed; sometimes included in genus Gentiana)
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