Definition of Indian pink

1. Noun. Tropical American annual climber having red (sometimes white) flowers and finely dissected leaves; naturalized in United States and elsewhere.


2. Noun. North American lobelia having brilliant red flowers.
Exact synonyms: Cardinal Flower, Lobelia Cardinalis
Generic synonyms: Lobelia

Lexicographical Neighbors of Indian Pink

Indian madder
Indian mallow
Indian meal
Indian method
Indian millet
Indian monetary unit
Indian mongoose
Indian mulberry
Indian mustard
Indian operation
Indian paint
Indian paintbrush
Indian pangolin
Indian pangolins
Indian pea
Indian pink
Indian pipe
Indian plantain
Indian podophyllum resin
Indian poke
Indian poker
Indian pony
Indian potato
Indian python
Indian race
Indian rat snake
Indian rattlebox
Indian red
Indian relish
Indian rhinoceros

Literary usage of Indian pink

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

1. The Flower Garden: Or, Breck's Book of Flowers ; in which are Described All by Joseph Breck (1859)
"... or the Persicaria with the straggling Buckwheat, (Polygonum divaricatum) ? or the indian pink with the Carnation ? or the Marigold with the Coreopsis ? ..."

2. Flora Domestica, Or, The Portable Flower-garden: With Directions for the by Elizabeth Kent, Leigh Hunt (1831)
"indian pink. DIANTHUS CHINENSIS. Called also China Pink.—French, 1'oeillet de In Chine. THE indian pink is generally considered as an annual plant, ..."

3. A Little Book of Missouri Verse: Choice Selections from Missouri Verse-writers by James Samuel Snoddy (1897)
"... THE indian pink. An Indian maid her sire beloved Had guarded through the night, For wounded sore and weak he lay, Far from the bloody fight. ..."

4. Epitome of gardening by Thomas Moore (1881)
"They are not true annuals, but may be treated as such. The Chinese or Indian Pink (Dianthus chinensis, and its varieties ..."

5. The Horticulturist, and Journal of Rural Art and Rural Taste by Luther Tucker (1857)
"Imagine Sweet Williams with enlarged flowers and the delicate markings of the florist's Carnation, the same in the quasi-annual indian pink, ..."

6. The Greyhound in 1864: Being the Second Edition of a Treatise on the Art of by John Henry Walsh (1864)
"The next morning a dose of castor oil should be given, and in a few days the dose of indian pink should be repeated, and, to make assurance doubly sure, ..."

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