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Definition of Gentians
1. gentian [n] - See also: gentian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gentians
Literary usage of Gentians
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Scientific Memoirs of Thomas Henry Huxley by Thomas Henry Huxley (1902)
"XXXVI THE gentians : NOTES AND QUERIES. The Journal of the Linnean Society, vol.
xxiv., ... In truth, the gentians took hold of me rather than I of them; ..."
2. Cyclopedia of American Horticulture: Comprising Suggestions for Cultivation by Liberty Hyde Bailey, Wilhelm Miller (1900)
"gentians are difficult to establish, and dislike division of the root, but are
well worth patient years of trial, for t hey are very permanent when once ..."
3. Favourite Flowers of Garden and Greenhouse by Edward Step (1897)
"gentians Natural Order GENTIANES. Genus Gentiana GENTIANA (from Gentius, ...
gentians are mostly plants of mountainous or hilly districts, and every visitor ..."
4. Alpine Flowers for Gardens: Rock, Wall, Marsh Plants, and Mountain Shrubs by William Robinson (1910)
"... of the Himalayan gentians, and one of the easiest to cultivate. In the south
of Scotland it does well, but then alpine Indian plants find there a ..."
5. The Ottawa Naturalist by Ottawa Field-Naturalists' Club (1900)
"SOME NEW CANADIAN gentians. - By THEO. HOLM. GENTIANA MACOUNII.—Annual or sometimes
biennial, glabrous except the calyx : stem strict, quadrangular, ..."
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