yellow gentian

American  

noun

1. a plant, Gentiana lutea, of Europe and Asia Minor, having yellow flowers, the rootstock yielding a bitter tonic.

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Example Sentences

Antoinette watched the cows grazing, and stroked the smooth, glossy leaves of a yellow gentian with the end of her parasol.

From Samuel Brohl and Company by Cherbuliez, Victor

The assafoetida was mixed with an equal part of powdered yellow gentian, and this was given to the extent of about 8 grains a day in the food.

From Scientific American Supplement, No. 460, October 25, 1884 by Various

Gentiana acaulis, with deep-blue flowers; Gen′tianine, a yellow crystalline bitter compound obtained from the yellow gentian.

From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various