Lexic.us

Definition of Closed gentian

1. Noun. Similar to Gentiana andrewsii but with larger flowers.

2. Noun. Gentian of eastern North America having tubular blue or white flowers that open little if at all.

Lexicographical Neighbors of Closed Gentian

closed circulatory system closed comedo closed compound closed compounds closed corporation closed couplet closed curve closed cut valley closed dislocation closed door

closed drainage closed form closed fracture closed game closed games closed gentian (current term) closed head injury closed hospital closed in closed in(p)

closed interval closed loop closed matte closed primary closed reading frame closed reduction closed reduction of fractures closed session closed set closed shop

Literary usage of Closed gentian

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

1. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons (1895)
"Few flowers adapt themselves better to the season than the closed gentian. We look for it in September when the early waning days and frost-suggestive ..."

2. Minnesota Plant Life by Conway MacMillan (1899)
"The soapwort gentian is a form with the flowers of the closed gentian and opening ... The leaves are opposite, but in the closed gentian they are in whorls ..."

3. School Education (1907)
"The closed gentian also has a smooth, erect stem about two feet high. ... The five-flowered gentian is rarer than the closed gentian, and its flowers are ..."

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