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発音

• (General American) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛnt͡ʃən/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈd͡ʒɛnt͡ʃn̩/
• 韻: -ɛnʃən

名詞

gentian (countable and uncountable, plural gentians)

1. (countable) Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet or blue flowers.
   • 1956, Delano Ames, Crime out of Mind‎, chapter 1:

     On the cover of the leaflet advertising the Alpenrose Gasthof in Zirl am Gurgl […] there is a decorative picture of a young woman. […] She has bright flaxen hair and laughing eyes of the same hue as the gentians in the meadow beyond the inn.

   • 2008, Christopher Paolini, “Assault on Helgrind”, in Brisingr, page 39:

     Searching again, he noticed something that had eluded him before: a single flower, a gentian, blooming not fifty feet in front of them, where, by all rights, there ought to be solid rock. How does it get enough light to live?

2. (uncountable) Dried roots and rhizome of European gentian (Gentiana lutea), used as a tonic.

同意語

• fieldwort

派生語

参照

• gentian on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• Gentianaceae on Wikispecies.Wikispecies
• Category:Gentianaceae on Wikimedia Commons.Wikimedia Commons

アナグラム

• anteing, antigen