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Meanings of Monotropa uniflora in English

Small waxy white or pinkish-white saprophytic woodland plant having scalelike leaves and a nodding flower; turns black with age.

Synonyms
Examples for "Indian pipe"
Examples for "Indian pipe"
1
At night he sat on his brother's porch smoking a long Indian pipe.
The Last Trail
2
There they are all together, an Indian pipe, Arabian coffee and American tobacco!
Topsy-Turvy Land: Arabia Pictured for Children
3
Wallace smoked his Indian pipe and hunted in firelit dreams.
The Last of the Plainsmen
4
He could tell where to look for the rare fringed gentian, the yellow violet, the Indian pipe.
A Village Stradivarius
5
I can smoke my own pipe in turn, but when the Indian pipe comes around, I am nonplused.
Canyons of the Colorado
1
She was infinitely more than a well-modelled waxflower, and yet hardly a growing plant.
What's Mine's Mine — Volume 2
2
It was a bunch of waxflowers, under a glass dome.
The new yorker
Usage of Monotropa uniflora in English
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Phryma, Monotropa uniflora, etc.
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