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Gentian vs Picon - What's the difference?

gentian | picon |

As a proper noun gentian

is .

As a noun picon is

pickaxe (tool whose head has a pointed and a chisel edge).

gentian

English

(wikipedia gentian) (Gentianaceae)

Noun

(en noun)
  • Any of various herbs of the family Gentianaceae found in temperate and mountainous regions with violet or blue flowers.
  • * 1956 , , Crime out of Mind , , chapter 1:
    • On the cover of the leaflet advertising the Alpenrose Gasthof in Zirl am Gurgl She has bright flaxen hair and laughing eyes of the same hue as the gentians in the meadow beyond the inn.
  • The dried roots and rhizome of a European gentian, , used as a tonic.

    • Derived terms

    * horse gentian * yellow gentian

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    picon

    English

    (Sirop de Picon)

    Noun

    (-)
  • A caramel-coloured flavoured bitters made from oranges, gentian, and quinquina, traditionally accompanying beer in the east and north of France.
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