Indian club, a wooden club, which is swung by the hand for gymnastic exercise.
Indian cordage, cordage made of the fibers of cocoanut husk.
Indian cress (Bot.), nasturtium. See Nasturtium, 2.
Indian cucumber (Bot.), a plant of the genus Medeola (Medeola Virginica), a common in woods in the United States. The white rootstock has a taste like cucumbers.
Indian currant (Bot.), a plant of the genus Symphoricarpus (Symphoricarpus vulgaris), bearing small red berries.
Indian file, single file; arrangement of persons in a row following one after another, the usual way among Indians of traversing woods, especially when on the war path.
Indian fire, a pyrotechnic composition of sulphur, niter, and realgar, burning with a brilliant white light.
Indian grass (Bot.), a coarse, high grass (Chrysopogon nutans), common in the southern portions of the United States; wood grass.
Indian hemp. (Bot.)
(a)
A plant of the genus Apocynum (Apocynum cannabinum), having a milky juice, and a tough, fibrous bark, whence the name. The root it used in medicine and is both emetic and cathartic in properties.
(b)
The variety of common hemp (Cannabis Indica), from which hasheesh is obtained.
Indian mallow (Bot.), the velvet leaf (Abutilon Avicennae). See Abutilon.
Indian meal, ground corn or maize. (U.S.)
Indian millet (Bot.), a tall annual grass (Sorghum vulgare), having many varieties, among which are broom corn, Guinea corn, durra, and the Chinese sugar cane. It is called also Guinea corn. See Durra.
Indian physic (Bot.), a plant of two species of the genus Gillenia (Gillenia trifoliata, and Gillenia stipulacea), common in the United States, the roots of which are used in medicine as a mild emetic; called also American ipecac, and bowman's root.
Indian pink. (Bot.)
(a)
The Cypress vine (Ipomoea Quamoclit); so called in the West Indies.
Indian pipe (Bot.), a low, fleshy herb (Monotropa uniflora), growing in clusters in dark woods, and having scalelike leaves, and a solitary nodding flower. The whole plant is waxy white, but turns black in drying.
Indian plantain (Bot.), a name given to several species of the genus Cacalia, tall herbs with composite white flowers, common through the United States in rich woods.
Indian poke (Bot.), a plant usually known as the white hellebore (Veratrum viride).
Indian pudding, a pudding of which the chief ingredients are Indian meal, milk, and molasses.
Indian purple.
(a)
A dull purple color.
(b)
The pigment of the same name, intensely blue and black.
Indian red.
(a)
A purplish red earth or pigment composed of a silicate of iron and alumina, with magnesia. It comes from the Persian Gulf. Called also Persian red.
Indian rice (Bot.), a reedlike water grass. See Rice.
Indian shot (Bot.), a plant of the genus Canna (Canna Indica). The hard black seeds are as large as swan shot. See Canna.
Indian summer, in the United States, a period of warm and pleasant weather occurring late in autumn. See under Summer.
Indian tobacco (Bot.), a species of Lobelia. See Lobelia.
Indian turnip (Bot.), an American plant of the genus Arisaema. Arisaema triphyllum has a wrinkled farinaceous root resembling a small turnip, but with a very acrid juice. See Jack in the Pulpit, and Wake-robin.
Indian wheat, maize or Indian corn.
Indian yellow.
(a)
An intense rich yellow color, deeper than gamboge but less pure than cadmium.
(Bot.) A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx.
2.
A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; so called from the common color of the flower.
3.
Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something. "The very pink of courtesy."
4.
(Zool.) The European minnow; so called from the color of its abdomen in summer. (Prov. Eng.)
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