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

Beside a ditch in a field beyond, we find the great blue lobelia, and near it, amid the weeds and wild grasses and purple asters, the most beautiful of our fall flowers, the fringed gentian.

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

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.

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

There was the golden thistle, the horned poppy, the fringed gentian, the blue pimpernel, the rare orobanche ramosa, the yellow salvia, and pinks in profusion.

From The Roof of France by Betham-Edwards, Matilda