English noun: false indigo |
1. | false indigo (plant) any of several plants of the genus Baptisia |
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| Synonyms | wild indigo |
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| Broader (hypernym) | ligneous plant, woody plant |
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| Narrower (hyponym) | Baptisia australis, Baptisia lactea, Baptisia tinctoria, blue false indigo, horsefly weed, indigo broom, rattle weed, white false indigo |
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| Member meronym | Baptisia, genus Baptisia |
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2. | false indigo (plant) dense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage and dense racemes of dark purple flowers |
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| Synonyms | Amorpha fruticosa, bastard indigo |
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| Broader (hypernym) | amorpha |
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3. | false indigo (plant) an erect to spreading hairy shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having racemes of red to indigo flowers |
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| Synonyms | Amorpha californica, bastard indigo |
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| Broader (hypernym) | amorpha |
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