closed gentian

Questions about closed gentian

What does closed gentian mean?

closed gentian means "similar to Gentiana andrewsii but with larger flowers". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for closed gentian?

Close synonyms include blind gentian, Gentiana clausa, blind gentian, bottle gentian, Gentiana andrewsii. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is closed gentian a common word?

closed gentian is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.