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Indian nut

(Encyclopedia)Indian nut: see pine nut.

Indian rice

(Encyclopedia)Indian rice: see wild rice.

Indian subcontinent

(Encyclopedia)Indian subcontinent, region, S central Asia, comprising the countries of Pakistan, India, and Bangladesh and the Himalayan states of Nepal, and Bhutan. Sri Lanka, an island off the southeastern tip of...

Indian music

(Encyclopedia)Indian music, of India: see Hindu music. ...

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...

American Indian Movement

(Encyclopedia)American Indian Movement (AIM), Native American civil-rights activist organization, founded in 1968 to encourage self-determination among Native Americans and to establish international re...

mid-ocean ridge

(Encyclopedia)mid-ocean ridge: see plate tectonics. ...