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/ˈɪndiən paɪp/ Listen

Indian pipe

noun

Small waxy white or pinkish-white saprophytic woodland plant having scalelike leaves and a nodding flower; turns black with age. Synonyms: Monotropa uniflora, waxflower.

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"Indian pipe" Quotes from Famous Books

... settlement was not given to sociability. In the morning he sometimes lay with Colonel Zane's dog, Chief, by the side of a spring under an elm tree, and in the afternoon strolled aimlessly along the river bluff, or on the hillside. At night he sat on his brother's porch smoking a long Indian pipe. Since that day, now a week past, when he had returned with the stolen horses, his movements and habits were precisely what would have been expected of an ...

— The Last Trail • Zane Grey

... the true Partridge-berry, the Chimaphila, Yellow Lily, Mullein, Ghost Flower, Indian Pipe, Lysimacha Stricta, Wild Chamomile. August will bring forth a variety of other plants, amongst others the Spirantes, or Ladies' Tresses, a very sweet-scented Orchis, with white flowers placed as a spiral round the ...

— Picturesque Quebec • James MacPherson Le Moine

Words linked to "Indian pipe" : genus Monotropa, waxflower, Monotropa, wild flower, wildflower, Monotropa uniflora