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Meaning of "wild indigo" in the English dictionary

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PRONUNCIATION OF WILD INDIGO

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WILD INDIGO

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Wild indigo is a noun.
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WHAT DOES WILD INDIGO MEAN IN ENGLISH?

wild indigo

Baptisia

Baptisia is a genus in the legume family, Fabaceae. They are flowering herbaceous perennial plants with pea-like flowers, followed by pods, which are sometimes inflated. They are native to woodland and grassland in eastern and southern North America. The species most commonly found in cultivation is B. australis. Baptisia species are used as food plants by the larvae of some Lepidoptera species, including the jaguar flower moth, Schinia jaguarina.

Definition of wild indigo in the English dictionary

The definition of wild indigo in the dictionary is any of several North American leguminous plants of the genus Baptisia, esp B. tinctoria, which has yellow flowers and three-lobed leaves.

WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WILD INDIGO

wild carrot
wild celery
wild cherry
wild child
wild dog
wild flower
Wild Geese
wild ginger
wild horse
wild hyacinth
wild Irishman
wild lettuce
wild liquorice
wild man
wild marjoram
wild mustard
wild oat
wild oats
wild olive
wild pansy

WORDS THAT END LIKE WILD INDIGO

amigo
Bendigo
caligo
fons et origo
impetigo
indigo
intertrigo
latigo
lentigo
loligo
mendigo
prurigo
Rodrigo
serpigo
Sligo
vertigo
Vigo
vitiligo
wendigo
windigo

Synonyms and antonyms of wild indigo in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «wild indigo» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WILD INDIGO

Find out the translation of wild indigo to 25 languages with our English multilingual translator.
The translations of wild indigo from English to other languages presented in this section have been obtained through automatic statistical translation; where the essential translation unit is the word «wild indigo» in English.

Translator English - Chinese

野靛
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

añil silvestre
570 millions of speakers

English

wild indigo
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

जंगली नील
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

النيلي البري
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

дикий индиго
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

indigo selvagem
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বন্য নীল
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

indigo sauvage
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Indigo liar
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

wildem Indigo
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

野生の藍
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

야생 인디고
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Alam bébas indigo
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

chàm hoang dã
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

காட்டு இண்டிகோ
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

वन्य निळसर
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Vahşi çivit
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

indaco selvaggio
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

dzikie indygo
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

дикий індиго
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

indigo sălbatic
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

wild indigo
15 millions of speakers
af

Translator English - Afrikaans

wilde indigo
14 millions of speakers
sv

Translator English - Swedish

vild indigo
10 millions of speakers
no

Translator English - Norwegian

vill indigo
5 millions of speakers

Trends of use of wild indigo

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WILD INDIGO»

The term «wild indigo» is normally little used and occupies the 119.264 position in our list of most widely used terms in the English dictionary.
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FREQUENCY OF USE OF THE TERM «WILD INDIGO» OVER TIME

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Examples of use in the English literature, quotes and news about wild indigo

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WILD INDIGO»

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Perennial All-Stars: The 150 Best Perennials for ...
BLUE WILD INDIGO^ Baptisia australis — -^f^^ S** BLUE WILD INDIGO IS ONE OF THE LONGEST-LIVED perennials. This plant makes a big, substantial, and very reliable clump of fresh, blue-green, three-lobed foliage on gray stems that ...
Jeff Cox, 2002
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Wild Indigo
Bureau of Land Management Agent Jamaica Wild has witnessed the death of a Tanoah Pueblo man who was trampled by buffalo.
Sandi Ault, 2008
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Wild Indigo
Love's Spirit To the Cherokee who raised her she was "Wanders Lost," a white orphan in a land ravaged by revolution.
Judith Stanton, 2010
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Southern United States: An Environmental History
As early as 1712, settlers observed wild indigo growing in Louisiana, but quickly remarked that neither the French nor natives understood its proper preparation. Some credit the Jesuits for first introducing indigo processing techniques to ...
Donald E. Davis, 2006
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Soil survey
Compassplant. Tall gayfeather. Scaly gay- feather. Increasers Meadow drop- seed. Tall dropseed. Sideoats grama. Scribner panicum. Longspike tndens. Purpletop. Sedges. Rushes. Blue wild- indigo. Cream wild- indigo. Slimflower scurf pea.
United States. Bureau of Soils, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, United States. Bureau of Plant Industry, Soils, and Agricultural Engineering, 1966
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Indigo: In Search of the Colour that Seduced the World
But for a number of reasons, totally organic indigo dyeing soon disappeared. For one thing, the process of indigo dyeing is tedious and slow. People must gather wild indigo leaves; pound and dry them into balls—up to 150 for a single vat—to  ...
Catherine E. McKinley, 2011
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Plant-Environment Interactions
Plains wild indigo inhabits the prairie during the cool, wet season while the annual sunflower prefers the hot, dryer season. Wild indigo had no stomatal response to shade and lower photosynthetic capacity, stomatal conductance, and  ...
Robert E. Wilkinson, 2000
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Cultivation Of Medicinal And Aromatic Crops
Wild Indigo Plant Profile Family : Leguminacae/ Fabiaceae English name: Wild indigo, Purple tephrosia Indian name : Sharapunkha (Sanskrit), Dhamasia (Hindi ) Kolingi (Tamil), Vempali, Neelavempali (Telugu) Koggili, Empali, Vajraneeli ...
Farooqi A.A., B.S. Sreeramu, B.S. Sreeramu, 2010
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Familiar Lectures on Botany, Practical, Elementary and ...
Among those which are thus removed from the class where from their general appearance they might have been looked for, is the wild indigo, (Baptisia,) a handsome plant with yellow flowers, two or three feet in height, and very branching; the ...
Mrs. Lincoln Phelps, 1836
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The Gardeners Dictionary: Containing the Best and Newest ...
This is the Carolina wild Indigo. 4. Anil kguminibus pendulis lanalis compreffis foliis pinnatis. Indigo with woolly hanging compressed Pods and winged Leaves. 5. Anil kguminibus horizontalibus teretibus foliis pinnatis tcrnatifque. Indigo with ...
Philip Miller, 1759

3 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WILD INDIGO»

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Wild Indigo Spreads the Summertime Blues
Wild indigo, known for its blues, is boasting bright yellow blossoms. This full-figured herb, which shows round or globular growth, is now in flower. The state ... «The Vineyard Gazette - Martha's Vineyard News, Jul 15»
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The duskywing identification challenge
Three of our species feed on oaks of various kinds; a fourth feeds on aspen; and the fifth, on a common wildflower of dry, sandy areas called wild indigo. Oaks, of ... «Martha's Vineyard Times, May 14»
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Cottingham: Georgia was a part of indigo's colorful history
I had heard indigo was an important crop for Georgia long before cotton came ... of native false indigo (Baptisia australis) with white wild indigo (Baptisia alba). «Online Athens, Nov 04»

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