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Indian paint

noun

1. European annual with clusters of greenish flowers followed by red pulpy berrylike fruit; naturalized North America

• Syn: ↑strawberry blite, ↑strawberry pigweed, ↑Chenopodium capitatum

• Hypernyms: ↑goosefoot

2. perennial North American plant with greyish hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment

• Syn: ↑hoary puccoon, ↑Lithospermum canescens

• Hypernyms: ↑herb, ↑herbaceous plant

• Member Holonyms: ↑Lithospermum, ↑genus Lithospermum

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noun

Usage: usually capitalized I

Etymology: indian (II) 2

1. : bloodroot 1

2. : strawberry blite

3. : hoary puccoon

Useful english dictionary. 2012.