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INDIAN PAINT
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
European annual with clusters of greenish flowers followed by red pulpy berrylike fruit; naturalized North America
Synonyms:
Chenopodium capitatum; Indian paint; strawberry blite; strawberry pigweed
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("Indian paint" is a kind of...):
goosefoot (any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Perennial North American plant with greyish hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment
Synonyms:
hoary puccoon; Indian paint; Lithospermum canescens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("Indian paint" is a kind of...):
herb; herbaceous plant (a plant lacking a permanent woody stem; many are flowering garden plants or potherbs; some having medicinal properties; some are pests)
Holonyms ("Indian paint" is a member of...):
genus Lithospermum; Lithospermum (annual or perennial herbaceous or shrubby plants; cosmopolitan except Australia)
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