indigo

Meaning of indigo

noun
  1. a tropical plant of the pea family, which was formerly widely cultivated as a source of dark blue dye.
  2. the dark blue dye obtained from the indigo plant.

mid 16th century: from Portuguese índigo, via Latin from Greek indikon, from indikos ‘Indian (dye)’ (see Indic).

Information about indigo

Hyphenation of indigo

in-digo

  • It consists of 2 syllables and 6 chars.
  • indigo is a word disyllabic because it has two syllables

indigo synonyms

Meaning anil:

anil, indigotin

Translation of indigo

Anagrams of indigo

gondii

Words that rhyme with indigo

Bendigo, bromindigo, dihydroisoindigo, leucoindigo, mendigo, thioindigo, weendigo, wendigo, windigo

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