(n.) Any one of a genus (Gentiana) of herbaceous plants with opposite leaves and a tubular four- or five-lobed corolla, usually blue, but sometimes white, yellow or red. See Illust. of Capsule.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
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