indigofera tinctoria

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indigo
A purplish-blue colour
RISC-based workstation made by Silicon Graphics that supports high-speed 2-D graphics and digital audio The Indigo uses display PostScript
A blue vegetable dye derived form a member of the pea family, A yellow juice from the plant oxidizes to blue upon exposure to air Indigo was chemically synthesized in 1880
Master Djwal Kul Used to heal sense organs, skin and sexual organs
a crop grown in St Charles Parish in early plantation days for the production of a blue dye
Anil, Nereum tinctorium, etc
A blue dyestuff obtained from several plants belonging to very different genera and orders; as, the woad, Isatis tinctoria, Indigofera tinctoria, I
a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically
Having a deep blue colour
n blue dye, C16H10N2O2, obtained from certain plants, esp a plant (Indigofera tinctoria) native to India, or made synthetically, usually from aniline
A blue dye obtained from the indigo plant
deep blue, enriched with red approaching purple
A blue dye obtained from certain plants (the indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye
Indigo does not exist in the plants as such, but is obtained by decomposition of the glycoside indican
A plant that yields a blue vat dye
{i} dark violet-blue color
A kind of deep blue, one of the seven prismatic colors
Acronym for the Indien Gaz Ocean project, a series of three cruises taking place aboard the RV Marion Dufresne from 1985-1987 The INDIGO 14C activities are available from the CDIAC
a blue-violet color deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye
Something that is indigo is dark purplish blue in colour. a dark purple-blue colour (indicum, from indikos ). Blue vat dye, obtained until about 1900 entirely from some species of the indigo plant. Extraction of the dye was important to the economy of colonial America and remained so in India until the early 20th century. Synthetic indigo has replaced the natural dye; it is reduced chemically to the soluble yellow compound leucoindigo, in which form it is applied to textile fibres and reoxidized to indigo (see oxidation-reduction)

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ındigofera tinctoria
indigo plant