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Definition: Indian purple
Indian
\In"di*an\ (?; 277), a. [From India, and this fr. Indus,
the name of a river in Asia, L. Indus, Gr. ?, OPers. Hindu,
name of the land on the Indus, Skr. sindhu river, the Indus.
Cf.
Hindu.]
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1. Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies,
or, sometimes, to the West Indies.
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2. Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of
America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk.
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3. Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian
meal, Indian bread, and the like. [U.S.]
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Indian bay (Bot.), a lauraceous tree (
Persea Indica).
Indian bean (Bot.), a name of the catalpa.
Indian berry. (Bot.) Same as
Cocculus indicus.
Indian bread. (Bot.) Same as
Cassava.
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 dye, the puccoon.
Indian fig. (Bot.)
(a) The banyan. See
Banyan.
(b) The prickly pear.
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. --Gray.
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 Avicenn[ae]
). 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 ox (Zo["o]l.), the zebu.
Indian paint. See
Bloodroot.
Indian paper. See
India paper, under
India.
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. --Gray.
Indian pink. (Bot.)
(a) The Cypress vine (
Ipom[oe]a Quamoclit); -- so called
in the West Indies.
(b) See
China pink, under
China.
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.
--Gray.
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.
(b) See
Almagra.
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
Aris[ae]ma.
Aris[ae]ma 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.
(b) See
Euxanthin.
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