Indigofera tinctoria : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: Indigofera tinctoria	by the DICT Development Group
3 results for Indigofera tinctoria
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Indigofera tinctoria n deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye Synonym(s): indigo, indigo plant, Indigofera tinctoria
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
2. (Chem.) 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. Note: Commercial indigo contains the essential coloring principle indigo blue or indigotine, with several other dyes; as, indigo red, indigo brown, etc., and various impurities. Indigo is insoluble in ordinary reagents, with the exception of strong sulphuric acid. {Chinese indigo} (Bot.), {Isatis indigotica}, a kind of woad. {Wild indigo} (Bot.), the American herb {Baptisia tinctoria} which yields a poor quality of indigo, as do several other species of the same genus.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
d8Indigofera \[d8]In`digof"era\, n. [NL., from E. indigo + L. ferre to bear.] (Bot.) A genus of leguminous plants having many species, mostly in tropical countries, several of them yielding indigo, esp. {Indigofera tinctoria}, and {I. Anil}.