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indigo
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As a noun, indigo means a purplish-blue colour. As an adjective, it means having a deep purplish-blue colour.
Meanings of indigo
7 meaningsnoun
A purplish-blue colour
An indigo-colored dye obtained from certain plants (the indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye.
An indigo plant, such as from species in genera Indigofera, Amorpha (false indigo), Baptisia (wild indigo), and Psorothamnus and Dalea (indigo bush).
Deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dyeplant
Similar: indigo plant, Indigofera tinctoriaA blue-violet color
adjective
Having a deep purplish-blue colour
Having a color between blue and violet
“indigo flowers”
Meanings from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) and Open English WordNet (CC BY 4.0).