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Indian paint   /ˈɪndiən peɪnt/   Listen
Indian paint

noun
1.
Perennial North American plant with greyish hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment.  Synonyms: hoary puccoon, Lithospermum canescens.
2.
European annual with clusters of greenish flowers followed by red pulpy berrylike fruit; naturalized North America.  Synonyms: Chenopodium capitatum, strawberry blite, strawberry pigweed.





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"Indian paint" Quotes from Famous Books



... full of flowers. There was rather less Indian paint-brush than on the east side of the park. We were too low for much bear-grass. But there were masses everywhere of June roses, true forget-me-nots, and larkspur. And everywhere in the burnt areas was the fireweed, ...
— Tenting To-night - A Chronicle of Sport and Adventure in Glacier Park and the - Cascade Mountains • Mary Roberts Rinehart


Words linked to "Indian paint" :   herbaceous plant, Lithospermum canescens, genus Lithospermum, Chenopodium capitatum, hoary puccoon, herb, strawberry blite, goosefoot, Lithospermum, strawberry pigweed


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