PRAIRIE GENTIAN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prairie gentian mean? 

• PRAIRIE GENTIAN (noun)
  The noun PRAIRIE GENTIAN has 1 sense:

1. one of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas

  Familiarity information: PRAIRIE GENTIAN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PRAIRIE GENTIAN (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

One of the most handsome prairie wildflowers having large erect bell-shaped bluish flowers; of moist places in prairies and fields from eastern Colorado and Nebraska south to New Mexico and Texas

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

bluebell; Eustoma grandiflorum; prairie gentian; tulip gentian

Hypernyms ("prairie gentian" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Holonyms ("prairie gentian" is a member of...):

Eustoma; genus Eustoma (small genus of herbs of warm regions of southern North America to northern South America)