Meaning of Gentian | Babel Free

Definitions

1. Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet or blue flowers.
   countable
2. Dried roots and rhizome of European gentian (Gentiana lutea), used as a tonic.
   uncountable

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Examples

“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.”

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