indigo

noun · adjectiveA2

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Danh từ

noun

Plural noun:

indigosindigoes

1.
(countable, uncountable)A purplish-blue color.
2.
(countable, uncountable)A greenish dark blue color; the color of indigo dye.
3.
(countable, uncountable)A blue-colored dye obtained from certain plants (indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye.
4.
(countable, uncountable)An indigo plant, such as from species in genera Indigofera, Amorpha (false indigo), Baptisia (wild indigo), and Psorothamnus and Dalea (indigo bush).
A Southern planter has been sowing indigo and cotton together. Perhaps he contemplates raising blue cotton; and should he water the plants with nitric acid, he would probably raise gun cotton—if any.

Tính từ

adjective

Comparative

more indigo

Superlative

most indigo

1.
having a deep purplish-blue colour

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wild indigoanilanilinerainbowSaxon blueBaptisia tinctoria species

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Nguồn gốc từ

16th century (as indico, modern spelling from the 17th century), Spanish índigo, Portuguese endego (modern índigo), or Dutch - (via Portuguese -) indigo, all from Latin indicum (indigo), from Ancient Greek ἰνδικόν (Indian dye), from Ἰνδία. Indic.