INDIAN PIPE

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

Small waxy white or pinkish-white saprophytic woodland plant having scalelike leaves and a nodding flower; turns black with age

Synonyms:

Indian pipe; Monotropa uniflora; waxflower

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Nouns denoting plants

Hypernyms ("Indian pipe" is a kind of...):

wild flower; wildflower (wild or uncultivated flowering plant)

Holonyms ("Indian pipe" is a member of...):

genus Monotropa; Monotropa (leafless fleshy saprophytic plants; in some classifications placed in the family Pyrolaceae)

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