indian paint

Questions about indian paint

What does indian paint mean?

indian paint means "perennial North American plant with greyish hairy foliage yielding a red or yellow pigment". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for indian paint?

Close synonyms include hoary puccoon, Lithospermum canescens, strawberry blite, strawberry pigweed, Chenopodium capitatum. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is indian paint a common word?

indian paint is banded "Uncommon" — turns up in careful writing rather than conversation. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.