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Indian pipe


Indian pipe

n. A waxy white or sometimes pinkish saprophytic woodland plant (Monotropa uniflora) of North and Central America and East Asia, having scalelike leaves and a solitary nodding flower.

Indian pipe

n (Plants) a white or pinkish saprophytic woodland plant, Monotropa uniflora, of the N hemisphere, with a solitary nodding flower resembling a pipe: family Monotropaceae

In′dian pipe′


n. a leafless, pearly white saprophytic plant, Monotropa uniflora, having a solitary white flower. [1785–95, Amer.]
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Noun1.Indian pipe - small waxy white or pinkish-white saprophytic woodland plant having scalelike leaves and a nodding flowerIndian pipe - small waxy white or pinkish-white saprophytic woodland plant having scalelike leaves and a nodding flower; turns black with ageMonotropa uniflora, waxflowerwild flower, wildflower - wild or uncultivated flowering plantgenus Monotropa, Monotropa - leafless fleshy saprophytic plants; in some classifications placed in the family Pyrolaceae

Indian pipe


Indian pipe,

common name for the genus Monotropa and for the family Monotropaceae, low flowering plants of north temperate zones. They are chlorophylless saprophytes with a funguslike appearance. Each stem has scalelike leaves and, with its nodding flower, resembles a pipe. The plant's waxy white or yellowish-white color has given rise to such names as corpse plant and ghost flower. The related snow plant (Sarcodes sanguinea) of the Sierra Nevadas is a bright red species that shoots up and blooms as soon as the snow melts. Indian pipes, snow plants, and related saprophytes are classed by most botanists as a separate family, the Monotropaceae; by others they are included in the family Ericaceae (heathheath,
in botany, common name for some members of the Ericaceae, a family of chiefly evergreen shrubs with berry or capsule fruits. Plants of the heath family form the characteristic vegetation of many regions with acid soils, particularly the moors, swamps, and mountain slopes
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 family). Both families are classified in the MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
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, class Magnoliopsida, order Ericales.

Indian pipe


  • noun

Synonyms for Indian pipe

noun small waxy white or pinkish-white saprophytic woodland plant having scalelike leaves and a nodding flower

Synonyms

  • Monotropa uniflora
  • waxflower

Related Words

  • wild flower
  • wildflower
  • genus Monotropa
  • Monotropa
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