indian - English dictionary definition

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Indian Of or pertaining to India proper; also to the East Indies, or, sometimes, to the West Indies.
Indian Of or pertaining to the aborigines, or Indians, of America; as, Indian wars; the Indian tomahawk.
Indian Made of maize or Indian corn; as, Indian corn, Indian meal, Indian bread, and the like.
Indian A native or inhabitant of India.
Indian One of the aboriginal inhabitants of America; -- so called originally from the supposed identity of America with India.
Indian any of the languages spoken by Amerindians
Indian agent a representative of the federal government to American Indian tribes especially on Indian reservations
Indian arrowroot perennial herb of East Indies to Polynesia and Australia; cultivated for its large edible root yielding Otaheite arrowroot starch
Indian banyan East Indian tree that puts out aerial shoots that grow down into the soil forming additional trunks
Indian bean perennial twining vine of Old World tropics having trifoliate leaves and racemes of fragrant purple pealike flowers followed by maroon pods of edible seeds; grown as an ornamental and as a vegetable on the Indian subcontinent; sometimes placed in genus Dolichos

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