gentianella

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1. low-growing alpine plant cultivated for its dark glossy green leaves in basal rosettes and showy solitary bell-shaped blue flowers (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	gentian,
definition	:	any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis (noun.plant)

2. genus of herbs with flowers that resemble gentian; in some classifications included in genus Gentiana (noun.plant)

hypernym	:	dicot genus, magnoliopsid genus,
definition	:	genus of flowering plants having two cotyledons (embryonic leaves) in the seed which usually appear at germination (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	ague weed, agueweed, five-flowered gentian, gentiana quinquefolia, gentianella quinquefolia, stiff gentian,
definition	:	gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers (noun.plant)

member holonym	:	felwort, gentianella amarella,
definition	:	gentian of Europe and China having creamy white flowers with fringed corollas (noun.plant)

member meronym	:	family gentianaceae, gentian family, gentianaceae,
definition	:	chiefly herbaceous plants with showy flowers; some are cultivated as ornamentals (noun.plant)