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    FALSE INDIGO

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     I. (noun) 

    Sense 1

    Meaning:

    An erect to spreading hairy shrub of the Pacific coast of the United States having racemes of red to indigo flowersplay

    Synonyms:

    Amorpha californica; bastard indigo; false indigo

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("false indigo" is a kind of...):

    amorpha (any plant of the genus Amorpha having odd-pinnate leaves and purplish spicate flowers)

    Sense 2

    Meaning:

    Dense shrub of moist riverbanks and flood plains of the eastern United States having attractive fragrant foliage and dense racemes of dark purple flowersplay

    Synonyms:

    Amorpha fruticosa; bastard indigo; false indigo

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("false indigo" is a kind of...):

    amorpha (any plant of the genus Amorpha having odd-pinnate leaves and purplish spicate flowers)

    Sense 3

    Meaning:

    Any of several plants of the genus Baptisiaplay

    Synonyms:

    false indigo; wild indigo

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("false indigo" is a kind of...):

    ligneous plant; woody plant (a plant having hard lignified tissues or woody parts especially stems)

    Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "false indigo"):

    Baptisia australis; blue false indigo (wild indigo of the eastern United States having racemes of blue flowers)

    Baptisia lactea; white false indigo (erect or spreading herb having racemes of creamy white flowers; the eastern United States)

    Baptisia tinctoria; horsefly weed; indigo broom; rattle weed (much-branched erect herb with bright yellow flowers; distributed from Massachusetts to Florida)

    Holonyms ("false indigo" is a member of...):

    Baptisia; genus Baptisia (genus of North American plants with showy flowers and an inflated pod)

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