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Definition of Indian beet
1. Noun. Stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers.
Group relationships: Genus Lupinus, Lupinus
Generic synonyms: Subshrub, Suffrutex
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indian Beet
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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