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Definition of Calathian violet
1. Noun. Perennial Eurasian gentian with sky-blue funnel-shaped flowers of damp open heaths.
Group relationships: Gentiana, Genus Gentiana
Generic synonyms: Gentian
Lexicographical Neighbors of Calathian Violet
Literary usage of Calathian violet
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Publications by English Dialect Society (1886)
"calathian violet. Gentiana Pneumonanthe, L. — Lyte and subsequent authors.
Prior, p. ... Gerard, however, figures a Campanula as 'the true calathian violet. ..."
2. A Dictionary of English Plant-names by James Britten, Robert Holland (1886)
"Gerard, however, figures a Campanula as ' the true calathian violet.' Cale (more
usually spelt Kale). Cabbage. — Dors. Aubrey, Hal. ; Scot!. Jamieson. ..."
3. Proserpina: Studies of Wayside Flowers, While the Air was Yet Pure Among the by John Ruskin (1882)
"... and next, Mr. Baxter's ' British Flowering Plants,' in the index of which I
find neither Pansy nor Heartsease, and only the ' Calathian' Violet, ..."
4. Flowers and their associations by Anne Pratt (1840)
"... appellation of Strange violet; and two species of gentian were called, one
the autumn bell-flower, or calathian violet, and another the Marion's violet. ..."
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