Definition of Stiff gentian

1. Noun. Gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers.


Lexicographical Neighbors of Stiff Gentian

stied
sties
stieve
stievely
stiever
stievest
stifado
stiff-arm
stiff-backed
stiff-hearted
stiff-necked
stiff-tailed duck
stiff-tailed ducks
stiff aster
stiff gentian (current term)
stiff person syndrome
stiff upper lip
stiffed
stiffen
stiffened
stiffener
stiffeners
stiffening
stiffenings
stiffens
stiffer
stiffest
stiffie
stiffies

Literary usage of Stiff gentian

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Southern Wild Flowers and Trees: Together with Shrubs, Vines and Various by Alice Lounsberry (1901)
"The stiff gentian, a quaintly pretty one among them all, grows in either dry or moist soil and often ascends to a considerable height on the mountains. ..."

2. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"... and inside the notches of the corolla tube. The leaves are opposite and lance-shaped. The stiff gentian and the oblong-leafed F1G. 172. Yellow gentian. ..."

3. Lake Maxinkuckee: A Physical and Biological Survey by Barton Warren Evermann, Howard Walton Clark (1920)
"stiff gentian; AGUE-WEED GENTIANA QUINQUEFOLIA L. Rare about the lake; only one small clump of plants found; this was at the base of the bank near the lake ..."

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