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INDIAN PIPE
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Dictionary entry overview: What does Indian pipe mean?
• INDIAN PIPE (noun)
The noun INDIAN PIPE has 1 sense:
1. small waxy white or pinkish-white saprophytic woodland plant having scalelike leaves and a nodding flower; turns black with age
Familiarity information: INDIAN PIPE used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Small waxy white or pinkish-white saprophytic woodland plant having scalelike leaves and a nodding flower; turns black with age
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Synonyms:
Indian pipe; Monotropa uniflora; waxflower
Hypernyms ("Indian pipe" is a kind of...):
wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)
Holonyms ("Indian pipe" is a member of...):
genus Monotropa; Monotropa (leafless fleshy saprophytic plants; in some classifications placed in the family Pyrolaceae)
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