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Noun: Indian paint
  1. Perennial North American plant with greyish hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment
    - hoary puccoon, Lithospermum canescens
     
  2. European annual with clusters of greenish flowers followed by red pulpy berrylike fruit; naturalized North America
    - strawberry blite, strawberry pigweed, Chenopodium capitatum

Type of: goosefoot, herb, herbaceous plant

Part of: genus Lithospermum, Lithospermum

Encyclopedia: Indian paint