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Indigo

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Noun

1. anil, indigo, indigotin

a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically

2. indigo, indigo plant, indigofera tinctoria

deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye

3. indigo

a blue-violet color

Adjective

4. indigo

having a color between blue and violet

Example Sentences:
'indigo flowers'

WordNet Lexical Database for English. Princeton University. 2010.


Indigo

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noun plural -gos or -goes
1. Also called: indigotin
a blue vat dye originally obtained from plants but now made synthetically
2. 
any of various tropical plants of the leguminous genus Indigofera, such as the anil, that yield this dye
Compare wild indigo
3. 
a. 
any of a group of colours that have the same blue-violet hue; a spectral colour
b. 
(as adjective)
an indigo carpet

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Indigo

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nounWord forms: plural ˈindiˌgos or ˈindiˌgoes
1. 
a blue dye, C16H10N2O2, obtained from certain plants, esp. a plant (Indigofera tinctoria) native to India, or made synthetically, usually from aniline
2. 
any of a genus (Indigofera) of plants of the pea family that yield indigo
3. 
a deep violet blue, designated by Newton as one of the seven prismatic or primary colors
adjective
4. 
of this color

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Indigo

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n. pl. in·di·gos or in·di·goes
1.
a. Any of various shrubs or herbs of the genus Indigofera in the pea family, having pinnately compound leaves and usually red or purple flowers in axillary racemes.
b. A dark blue crystalline compound, C16H10N2O2, that is obtained from these plants or produced synthetically and is widely used as a textile dye. Also called indigotin.
2. Any of several related plants, especially those of the genera Amorpha and Baptisia.
3. The hue of that portion of the visible spectrum lying between blue and violet, evoked in the human observer by radiant energy with wavelengths of approximately 420 to 450 nanometers; a dark blue to grayish purple blue.

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