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

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.

When the woods are bare, which does not occur in New England till in or near November, the fringed gentian has long been dead.

From The Writings of John Burroughs — Volume 05: Pepacton by Burroughs, John

There were purple violets, and yellow ones, and white ones, and some wild, purple asters, and some blue fringed gentian, and some lovely light-purple wild geraniums, and several Jacks-in-the-pulpit, and many other kinds of flowers.

From Bully and Bawly No-Tail by Wisa, Louis

In the meadows, and along the margin of the watercourses, you might find the fringed gentian at this time.

From Septimius Felton, or, the Elixir of Life by Hawthorne, Nathaniel