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gentian

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/ˈd͡ʒɛnt͡ʃən/
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/ˈd͡ʒɛnt͡ʃən/ · /ˈd͡ʒɛnt͡ʃn̩/

Definition of gentian

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noun

  1. (countable)Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet or blue flowers.
    “On the cover of the leaflet advertising the Alpenrose Gasthof in Zirl am Gurgl […] there is a decorative picture of a young woman. […] She has bright flaxen hair and laughing eyes of the same hue as the gentians in the meadow beyond the inn.”
    “Searching again, he noticed something that had eluded him before: a single flower, a gentian, blooming not fifty feet in front of them, where, by all rights, there ought to be solid rock. How does it get enough light to live?”
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noun

  1. (countable)Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet or blue flowers.
    “On the cover of the leaflet advertising the Alpenrose Gasthof in Zirl am Gurgl […] there is a decorative picture of a young woman. […] She has bright flaxen hair and laughing eyes of the same hue as the gentians in the meadow beyond the inn.”
    “Searching again, he noticed something that had eluded him before: a single flower, a gentian, blooming not fifty feet in front of them, where, by all rights, there ought to be solid rock. How does it get enough light to live?”
  2. (uncountable)Dried roots and rhizome of European gentian (Gentiana lutea), used as a tonic.

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Etymology

Via Middle English from Latin gentiāna, which, according to Pliny the Elder, was named after Gentius (Ancient Greek Γένθιος (Génthios)), the last king of Illyria, who supposedly discovered the plant's medicinal benefits. This has been dismissed as folk etymology but the word may still ultimately be of Illyrian origin, as -an is a common suffix in Illyrian words.

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