gentian

名词 n.
中文释义
英 /ˈd͡ʒɛnt͡ʃn̩/    美 /ˈd͡ʒɛnt͡ʃən/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet or blue flowers. countable
    — On the cover of the leaflet advertising the Alpenrose Gasthof in Zirl am Gurgl […] there is a decorative picture of a young woman. […] She has bright flaxen hair and laughing eyes of the same hue as the gentians in the meadow beyond the inn.
  2. Dried roots and rhizome of European gentian (Gentiana lutea), used as a tonic. uncountable

词形变化

gentians plural

词汇关系

近义词
fieldwort
衍生词
Alpine gentian American gentian Appalachian gentian autumn gentian bastard gentian Bavarian gentian bigleaf gentian bladder gentian blind gentian blue gentian bog gentian Bohemian gentian bottle gentian bristly gentian broadpetal gentian brown gentian Caucasian gentian Charleston gentian Chiltern gentian closed gentian clustered gentian crested gentian cross gentian downy gentian dune gentian dwarf gentian early gentian Elliott's gentian European gentian explorer's gentian field gentian five-flowered gentian fringed gentian gentamicin gentian blue gentianic gentianine gentianose gentian violet German gentian giant gentian greater fringed gentian great yellow gentian green gentian harvestbells gentian horse gentian Karawanken gentian king's scepter gentian marsh gentian Mendocino gentian moss gentian mountain bog gentian narrowleaf gentian Newberry's gentian New England gentian pale gentian Parry's gentian pinebarren gentian plain gentian pleated gentian prairie gentian purple gentian purple-stalked gentian pygmy gentian rough gentian round-leaved gentian showy gentian slender gentian snake gentian snow gentian soapwort gentian spotted gentian spring gentian spurred gentian star gentian stemless gentian stiff gentian striped gentian swamp gentian Tienshan gentian Triglav gentian trumpet gentian tufted gentian tulip gentian white gentian whitish gentian willow gentian wiregrass gentian yellow gentian

词源

Via Middle English from Latin gentiāna, which, according to Pliny the Elder, was named after Gentius (Ancient Greek Γένθιος (Génthios)), the last king of Illyria, who supposedly discovered the plant's medicinal benefits. This has been dismissed as folk etymology but the word may still ultimately be of Illyrian origin, as -an is a common suffix in Illyrian words.
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