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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.
Generic synonyms: Morning Glory
2. Noun. North American lobelia having brilliant red flowers.
Lexicographical Neighbors of Indian Pink
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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