Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun calathian_violet

1 sense of calathian violet

Sense 1
marsh gentian, calathian violet, Gentiana pneumonanthe -- (perennial Eurasian gentian with sky-blue funnel-shaped flowers of damp open heaths)
       => gentian -- (any of various plants of the family Gentianaceae especially the genera Gentiana and Gentianella and Gentianopsis)