Indigo

Meaning

A purplish-blue color..

Definitions by Sense

1. A purplish-blue color.
2. A greenish dark blue color; the color of indigo dye.
3. A blue-colored dye obtained from certain plants (indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye.
4. An indigo plant, such as from species in genera Indigofera, Amorpha (false indigo), Baptisia (wild indigo), and Psorothamnus and Dalea (indigo bush).
5. having a deep purplish-blue colour

Example Sentences

The night was considerably clearer than anybody on board her desired when the schooner Ventura headed for the land. It rose in places, black and sharp against the velvety indigo, over her dipping bow, though most of the low littoral was wrapped in obscurity.

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.

Word Forms

• indigos
• indigoes
• more indigo
• most indigo

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