gentiana quinquefolia

Questions about gentiana quinquefolia

What does gentiana quinquefolia mean?

gentiana quinquefolia means "gentian of eastern North America having clusters of bristly blue flowers".

What is another word for gentiana quinquefolia?

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

gentiana quinquefolia 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.