INDIAN PAINT

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does Indian paint mean? 

• INDIAN PAINT (noun)
  The noun INDIAN PAINT has 2 senses:

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

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

  Familiarity information: INDIAN PAINT used as a noun is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• INDIAN PAINT (noun)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Perennial North American plant with greyish hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

hoary puccoon; Indian paint; Lithospermum canescens

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)

Sense 2

Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

Chenopodium capitatum; Indian paint; strawberry blite; strawberry pigweed

Hypernyms ("Indian paint" is a kind of...):

goosefoot (any of various weeds of the genus Chenopodium having small greenish flowers)