the plant family Gentianaceae, typified by herbaceous plants having simple opposite leaves, usually blue flowers with five united petals, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the closed gentian, fringed gentian, centaury, exacum, and marsh pink.
GENTIAN FAMILY
Meaning of GENTIAN FAMILY in English
Random House Webster's Unabridged English dictionary. Полный английский словарь Вебстер - Random House . 2012