单词 | gentianella |
释义 | gentianellan. Originally: any of various small plants of the genus Gentiana or family Gentianaceae, typically alpine species with deep blue flowers, esp. Gentiana acaulis. In later use spec.: any member of the genus Gentianella (family Gentianaceae), comprising small annual or biennial plants which have blue, purple, pink, or white flowers. Also (in form Gentianella): the genus itself.Gentianellas differ mainly in details of floral and seed morphology from plants of the genus Gentiana (in which most were originally included).Valid publication of the genus name: C. Moench Methodus Plantas Horti Botanici et Agri Marburgensis (1794) 482. ΘΚΠ the world > plants > particular plants > plants and herbs > according to family > Gentianaceae (gentians) > [noun] gentianOE fieldwooda1393 baldmoney1393 caresweeta1400 felwort1526 calathian violet1578 crosswort gentian1578 harvest-bell1597 gentianella1633 blue violet1649 marsh gentian1690 vernal gentian1728 pennywort1817 meadow pink1827 soap-gentian1845 soapwort gentian1845 autumn-bells1863 windflower1866 willow gentian1883 1633 T. Johnson Gerard's Herball (new ed.) ii. cvii. 436 This elegant Gentianella hath a small yellowish creeping root, from which arise many greene smooth thicke hard and sharpe pointed leaues. 1658 Sir T. Browne Garden of Cyrus iii, in Hydriotaphia: Urne-buriall 139 Flowers of one leaf have often five divisions, answered by a like number of calicular leaves; as Gentianella. 1757 J. Hill Eden 284/1 In such Places let him now plant the perennial Catchflies, Foxgloves, and Gentianella's. 1785 T. Martyn tr. J.-J. Rousseau Lett. Elements Bot. xvii. 233 Gentianella is singular for having its fine bell-shaped azure flowers larger than the whole plant besides. 1810 New Family Receipt-bk. 297 Edgings of daisies, thrift, violets, gentianella, &c. should be planted in February. 1846 E. B. Browning in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Oct. 494 Eyes of gentianella's azure. 1848 C. A. Johns Week at Lizard 311 Exacum filiforme Least Gentianella, is a minute plant. 1918 W. Graveson Brit. Wild Flowers xv. 246 The Cicendia belongs to the Gentian family, another of its names being Gentianella. 1975 M. Bartlett Gentians vii. 145 There are more than 120 species of gentianella in the northern hemisphere, South America, and Australasia. 1996 R. Mabey Flora Britannica 299/2 Early gentian, G. anglica , is a jewel of a plant..with the same delicate lipstick-like buds and stiff, sharp-petalled flat flowers as larger species of Gentianella. 2019 S. Nicholls Flowers of Field viii. 239 Rarest of all of these plants is the fringed gentian, G. ciliata, which used to be classified amongst the gentianellas, but is now given its own genus, Gentianopsis. Compounds gentianella blue n. now rare the vivid deep blue colour of certain gentian flowers (see main sense). ΚΠ 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vi. xii. 338 A deep and Gentianella blew . View more context for this quotation 1872 H. F. Chorley Lett. M. R. Mitford I. Pref. 17 A gorgeous cloak of gentianella blue, lined with white satin. 1953 Gardeners' Chron. 18 July 26/1 The flowers are deep gentianella-blue with a white centre. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2021; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1633 |
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