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Definition of Indian chocolate
1. Noun. Erect perennial of north temperate zone having pinnate leaves and a few nodding flowers with a brown-purple calyx and orange and pink petals.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indian Chocolate
Literary usage of Indian chocolate
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Paxton's Botanical Dictionary: Comprising the Names, History, and Culture of by Joseph Paxton (1868)
"indian chocolate ROOT. See Giuni rivale. INDIAN COPAL. Seo Valeria índica.
INDIAN CORDAGE is formed of the husk of the cocoa nut (Cocos ..."
2. The Works of the English Poets, from Chaucer to Cowper: Including the Series by Alexander Chalmers, Samuel Johnson (1810)
"... who were some time in those countries ere they could be prevailed upon to
taste it ; and it must be confessed, that the indian chocolate had not a ..."
3. The American Botanist edited by Willard Nelson Clute (1915)
"H. [In other parts of the United States this plant is sometimes known as indian
chocolate, Evans' root, ..."
4. An Illustrated Flora of the Northern United States, Canada and the British by Nathaniel Lord. Britton, Hon. Addison. Brown (1913)
"Pennsylvania, Michigan and Colorado. Also in northern Europe and Asia. Indian-
chocolate. Evan's- or chocolate-root. Drooping avens. Maiden-hair. ..."
5. Useful wild plants of the United States and Canada by Charles Francis Saunders (1920)
"... and has been used by country people in decoction as a beverage, with milk and
sugar, under the name of indian chocolate or Chocolate-root. ..."
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