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closed gentian
noun
a gentian, Gentiana andrewsii, of the eastern and central U.S., having tight clusters of dark blue, closed flowers.
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Word History and Origins
Origin of closed gentian1
An Americanism dating back to 1855–60
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Example Sentences
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Its blue is less mysterious and deep than the closed gentian’s, and yet how many name it the cup of autumn delight!
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Her own beauty was kept trimly neat, like a closed gentian.
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It was a story of the closed gentian, the title of which she announced, as she always did, loudly, and with an amusing little air of self-satisfaction.
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The closed gentian comes at the same time, and the blue and purple asters are in all their glory.
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At last she came with a handful of late-blooming closed gentians.
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