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/ˈd͡ʒɛnt͡ʃən/ · noun
(countable) Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet or blue flowers..
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.
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?
Use gentian when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Gentian means (countable) Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet or blue flowers..
Common synonyms include fieldwort.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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