Definition of Five-flowered gentian

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


Lexicographical Neighbors of Five-flowered Gentian

five
five-a-side
five-and-dime
five-and-ten
five-and-tens
five-and-twenty
five-by-five
five-card stud
five-day fever
five-finger
five-finger discount
five-finger discounts
five-finger exercise
five-finger exercises
five-fingered maidenhair fern
five-flowered gentian (current term)
five-for
five-fors
five-hitter
five-hundredth
five-hundredths
five-leaf
five-leafed
five-leaved
five-membered
five-nine
five-past
five-point Calvinist
five-point bishop's cap
five-second delay

Literary usage of Five-flowered gentian

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

1. New therapeutical agents by Willard H. Morse (1882)
"have in the five-flowered gentian a valuable adjuvant. It is approved by those who have used it in scarlatina. In hepatic disorders there are few medicines ..."

2. How to Know the Wild Flowers: A Guide to the Names, Haunts, and Habits of by Frances Theodora Parsons (1895)
"five-flowered gentian. Gentiana quinqueflora. Gentian Family. Stem.—Slender ; usually branching ; one or ... In some localities the five-flowered gentian ..."

3. School Education (1907)
"The five-flowered gentian is rarer than the closed gentian, and its flowers are small. It grows in the woods on a slender, branching stem, which bears five ..."

4. The Fairyland of Flowers: A Popular Illustrated Botany for the Home and School by Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick (1890)
"five-flowered gentian.— Slender and branching. Leaves lanee-ovate. ... Otherwise much like the five-flowered Gentian. FRINGED GENTIAN. WHITE GENTIAN. ..."

5. The Fairyland of Flowers: A Popular Illustrated Botany by Mara Louise Pratt-Chadwick (1890)
"GENTIAN FAMILY five-flowered gentian.—Slender and branching. Leaves lance-ovate. ... Otherwise much like the five-flowered Gentian. ..."

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