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Indian tobacco

(Encyclopedia)Indian tobacco, name for several plants, among them lobelia. ...

Indian Head

(Encyclopedia)Indian Head, town, SE Sask., Canada, E of Regina. In a wheat-growing region, it has flour mills and grain elevators. A dominion experimental and forestr...

Indian pipe

(Encyclopedia)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...

Indian literature

(Encyclopedia)Indian literature. Oral literature in the vernacular languages of India is of great antiquity, but it was not until about the 16th cent. that an extensive written literature appeared. Chief factors in...

public school

(Encyclopedia)public school, in the United States, a tax-supported elementary or high school open to anyone. In England the term was originally applied to grammar schools endowed for the use of the lay public; howe...

secondary school

(Encyclopedia)secondary school: see school.

preparatory school

(Encyclopedia)preparatory school: see school.

intermediate school

(Encyclopedia)intermediate school: see school.

elementary school

(Encyclopedia)elementary school: see school.

charter school

(Encyclopedia)charter school, alternative type of American public school that, while paid for by taxes, is independent of the public-school system and relatively free from state and local regulations. A charter sch...