Indigo is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for INDIGO in dictionary:

NOUN:
• a blue dye
• a tropical plant of the pea family, which was formerly widely cultivated as a source of dark blue dye.
• the dark blue dye obtained from the indigo plant.
• a colour between blue and violet in the spectrum
• A kind of deep blue, one of the seven prismatic colors.
• A blue dyestuff obtained from several plants belonging to very different genera and orders; as, the woad, Isatis tinctoria, Indigofera tinctoria, I. Anil, Nereum tinctorium, etc. It is a dark blue earthy substance, tasteless and odorless, with a copper-violet luster when rubbed. Indigo does not exist in the plants as such, but is obtained by decomposition of the glycoside indican.
• a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically
• deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye
• a blue-violet color
• dye of this colour
ADJECTIVE:
• deep violet-blue
• Having the color of, pertaining to, or derived from, indigo.
• having a color between blue and violet

Words related to INDIGO

indigoes10 indigos9 indigotic13 indigotin11

Words that contain INDIGO

indigos9 windigo12 indigoes10 indigoid11 windigos13 indigoids12 indigotic13 indigotin11 windigoes14 indigolite12 indigotins12 indigolites13

How to use INDIGO in a sentence

• He sent her a man who knew how to get the indigo out of the plant.
• As soon as the indigo is dry, it is broken in pieces and packed.
• But in the years following the peace the indigo plants had been destroyed year after year by an insect.
• The narrow limits of the rice and indigo regime in the two colonies made the plantation system the more dominant in its own area.
• It is produced like Indigo, from the plant chiefly found towards the head of Essequibo, Parima, and Rio Negro.
• For hour after hour the tireless camels swung on and on, tawny beasts on a tawny desert, under a silver moon that swam in a deep indigo sky in which a million stars sparkled.
• The indigo birds, like flakes from the sky above, were flitting, calling, everywhere, as they tarried on their southward journey.
• Has Indigo been long known? The culture and preparation of indigo were known to the Oriental nations long before it was introduced into Europe.
• For those who would wish to buy their indigo ready prepared for use these are very convenient forms.
• Sawkins, it seems, was particularly lucky, for he made a haul of 1000 chests of indigo.
• Although the cloth and thread were dyed various colors, she knows only how blue was obtained by allowing the indigo plant to rot in water and straining the result.
• The raising of rice and indigo in those States caused an increasing death-rate among the slaves.
• Previous to the Revolution the principal staple for market was indigo, and that raised in this district always commanded the highest price.
• The success which thus attended my first attempts has encouraged me to try indigo planting on a more extensive scale.
• For this purpose I am allowing all the plants of this season to run to seed, and intend to plant equal quantities of Bengal and native indigo.
• This of course induced further inquiry, and on consulting different works I find that the Cape of Good Hope possesses more species of indigo than the whole world besides.
• If they become as small as fine sand, and if the water clears up, the indigo is allowed quietly to subside.
• The indigo is then carefully taken out of the bag, and cut with a brass wire into bits, about three inches cube, which are dried in an airy house, upon shelves of wicker work.
• Passed Arskally about noon, the banks are composed occasionally of pure sand, and the country becomes more open, with very little jungle, much indigo cultivation occurs.
• His mother, too, presented him with a piece of indigo.
• Indigo, of a superior quality to the American, was being produced in British India and Central America, and the competition was reducing the price to the cost of production.

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