stiff gentian

Questions about stiff gentian

What does stiff gentian mean?

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

What is another word for stiff gentian?

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

stiff 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.