'Indian pink' definitions:

Definition of 'Indian pink'

noun

Tropical American annual climber having red (sometimes white) flowers and finely dissected leaves; naturalized in United States and elsewhere [syn: cypress vine, star- glory, Indian pink, Ipomoea quamoclit, Quamoclit pennata]

noun

North American lobelia having brilliant red flowers [syn: cardinal flower, Indian pink, Lobelia cardinalis]

Definition of 'Indian pink'

From: GCIDE

Pink \Pink\, n. [Perh. akin to pick; as if the edges of the petals were picked out. Cf. Pink, v. t.]
1. (Bot.) A name given to several plants of the caryophyllaceous genus Dianthus, and to their flowers, which are sometimes very fragrant and often double in cultivated varieties. The species are mostly perennial herbs, with opposite linear leaves, and handsome five-petaled flowers with a tubular calyx. [1913 Webster]
2. A color resulting from the combination of a pure vivid red with more or less white; -- so called from the common color of the flower. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
3. Anything supremely excellent; the embodiment or perfection of something. "The very pink of courtesy." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
4. (Zool.) The European minnow; -- so called from the color of its abdomen in summer. [Prov. Eng.] [1913 Webster]
Bunch pink is Dianthus barbatus.
China pink, or Indian pink. See under China.
Clove pink is Dianthus Caryophyllus, the stock from which carnations are derived.
Garden pink. See Pheasant's eye.
Meadow pink is applied to Dianthus deltoides; also, to the ragged robin.
Maiden pink, Dianthus deltoides.
Moss pink. See under Moss.
Pink needle, the pin grass; -- so called from the long, tapering points of the carpels. See Alfilaria.
Sea pink. See Thrift. [1913 Webster]