marsh gentian
noun
A Eurasian gentian of damp heaths, Gentiana pneumonanthe (rare and decreasing in Britain), which has large deep blue flowers striped green on the outside (also called Calathian violet); (also) any of several related gentians of the United States, especially striped gentian, Gentiana villosa, and soapwort, G. saponaria.
Origin
Late 17th century; earliest use found in John Ray (1627–1705), naturalist and theologian.
- preventer
- prevential
- prevention
- preventional
- prevention is better than cure (or an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure)
- preventionism
- preventionist
- preventive
- preventive custody
- preventive detention
- preventive diplomacy
- preventively
- preventive maintenance
- preventive medicine
- preventive war
- preventorium
- prevent zone
- preverb
- preverbal
- prevernal
- prevert
- prevertebral
- prevesical
- previable
- pre-Victorian