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Definition of Gentian family
1. Noun. Chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals.
Generic synonyms: Dicot Family, Magnoliopsid Family
Group relationships: Gentianales, Order Gentianales
Member holonyms: Centaurium, Genus Centaurium, Eustoma, Genus Eustoma, Exacum, Genus Exacum, Frasera, Genus Frasera, Gentiana, Genus Gentiana, Gentian, Gentianella, Genus Gentianella, Gentianopsis, Genus Gentianopsis, Genus Halenia, Halenia, Genus Sabbatia, Genus Swertia, Swertia
Lexicographical Neighbors of Gentian Family
Literary usage of Gentian family
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States: Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord Britton, Addison Brown (1897)
"gentian family. Bitter mostly quite glabrous herbs, with opposite (rarely
verticillate) ex- stipulate entire leaves, reduced to scales in Bartonia. and ..."
2. Flora of Los Angeles and Vicinity by Le Roy Abrams (1904)
"gentian family. Bitter, mostly quite glabrous herbs, with opposite rarely
verticillate exstipulate entire leaves, and regular perfect flowers in terminal or ..."
3. Bulletin by United States Bureau of Plant Industry (1905)
"gentian family (Gentianaceae). ... saponaria L. gentian family ... L. Gentian
family (Gentianaceae i. ..."
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