five-flowered gentian

Questions about five-flowered gentian

What does five-flowered gentian mean?

five-flowered gentian means "gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers".

What is another word for five-flowered gentian?

Close synonyms include agueweed, ague weed, stiff gentian, Gentianella quinquefolia, Gentiana quinquefolia. 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 five-flowered gentian a common word?

five-flowered 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.