Indian beet

Indian beet
noun
stout perennial of eastern and central North America having palmate leaves and showy racemose blue flowers
Hypernyms: ↑subshrub, ↑suffrutex
Member Holonyms: ↑Lupinus, ↑genus Lupinus

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noun
Usage: usually capitalized I
Etymology: indian (II) 2

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