Woad

Quick meaning: Woad is a noun meaning (countable) The plant Isatis tinctoria.

Meaning

(countable) The plant Isatis tinctoria.

More Meanings

1. (countable and uncountable) The blue vat dye made from the leaves of the plant through partial drying and fermentation.
2. To plant or cultivate woad.
3. To dye with woad.

Example Sentences

Woad was then placed on the regular shopping list of alternative crops.

Huge quanitities of alum and woad were disembarked each year at Southampton.

Woad is one of those plants which yield the deep blue colouring matter so greatly valued in the arts — Indigo.

For example, woad, a blue dye obtained from the plant Isatis tinctoria, was used throughout the Mediterannean and Europe and is often identified as indigo.

Word Forms

• woads
• woading
• woaded

Synonyms for woad

Depending on context, synonyms include indigo, indigotin.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include woad-waxen, woadwax, woadwaxen, whin, woodwaxen, woodwax.

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