fringed gentian

American  

noun

1. a plant of the genus Gentianopsis (orGentiana ), especially G. crinita, having a tubular blue corolla with four fringed petals.

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Etymology

Origin of fringed gentian

An Americanism dating back to 1805–15

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fringed gentian

As a child, Dickinson routinely wandered the woods, returning with handfuls of wildflowers: anemones, larkspur, fringed gentian, pink lady’s slipper.

From Slate ● May 17, 2016

The fringed gentian is rapidly becoming a thing of the past in a great many localities, and it gives us pleased surprise to find it far up in latitude 63°.

From The New North by Cameron, Agnes Deans

That lovely child of the declining year, the fringed gentian, would doubtless have been brought in with her fair sisters, had it not been for her somewhat unmanageable name.

From The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 13, No. 76, February, 1864 by Various

Here's the purple aster, And the golden-rod, And the blue fringed gentian, By the meadow sod.

From Cousin Hatty's Hymns and Twilight Stories by Nichols, H. P.

"Have you never seen a fringed gentian?" asked little blue-eyed Jane.

From Some Three Hundred Years Ago by Brewster, Edith Gilman