Woad

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An annual Old World plant (Isatis tinctoria) in the mustard family, formerly cultivated for its leaves that yield a blue dye.
  • n. The dye obtained from this plant.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Common name of the plant Isatis tinctoria whose leaves are used to make a blue dye.
  • n. The dye made from the plant Isatis tinctoria.
  • v. to plant or cultivate woad
  • v. to dye with woad
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. An herbaceous cruciferous plant (Isatis tinctoria) of the family Cruciferae (syn. Brassicaceae). It was formerly cultivated for the blue coloring matter derived from its leaves. See isatin.
  • n. A blue dyestuff, or coloring matter, consisting of the powdered and fermented leaves of the Isatis tinctoria. It is now superseded by indigo, but is somewhat used with indigo as a ferment in dyeing.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A cruciferous plant, Isatistinctoria, formerly much cultivated in Great. Britain on account of the blue dye extracted from its pulped and fermented leaves.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. any of several herbs of the genus Isatis
  • n. a blue dyestuff obtained from the woad plant
  • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    dye    dyestuff   
    Cross Reference
    wild woad   
    Variant
    isatin   
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