Definition of Indian beet

1. Noun. Stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers.

Exact synonyms: Lupinus Perennis, Old-maid's Bonnet, Sundial Lupine, Wild Lupine
Group relationships: Genus Lupinus, Lupinus
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indian Beet

Indiaman
Indiamen
Indian
Indian English
Indian Game
Indian Mutiny
Indian Ocean
Indian Peacock
Indian Peacocks
Indian agent
Indian apple
Indian arrowroot
Indian banyan
Indian bean
Indian beech
Indian beet
Indian blackwood
Indian blanket
Indian breadroot
Indian buffalo
Indian burn
Indian burns
Indian capital
Indian carp
Indian chickweed
Indian chief
Indian chieftain
Indian chocolate
Indian cholera

Literary usage of Indian beet

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Works of Sir Walter Ralegh, Kt by Sir Walter Raleigh, Thomas Birch, William Oldys (1829)
"... taken the indian beet ' terprise of worth, undertaken by ' with our men of war, we had, in all ' the earl of Essex, the earl of Sqf- Ralegh's Apology ..."

2. Cyclopedic Review of Current History by Alfred Sidney Johnson, Clarence A. Bickford, William W. Hudson, Nathan Haskell Dole (1902)
"It is also alleged that a syndicate of American capitalists is buying up all the plantations, in order to create a monopoly in West indian beet sugar and ..."

3. Historical and Descriptive Account of Persia: From the Earliest Ages to the by James Baillie Fraser (1834)
"Its stem is from one to two and a half feet in height; the leaves resemble those of the indian beet-root; and when ripe it produces a cauliflower-like head ..."

4. Historical and Descriptive Account of Persia, from the Earliest Ages to the by James Baillie Fraser (1842)
"Its stem is from one to two and a half feet in height; the leaves resemble those of the indian beet-root; and when ripe it produces a cauliflower-like head ..."

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