English to Hindi Dictionary

Hindi meaning of indigo

indigo

/noun/ नील; नीला; नील का पौधा; जंबुकी;

Synonym Nile; Indian blue; indigo blue;

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English Dictionary:

1. Indigo

[a.]

- Having the color of, pertaining to, or derived from, indigo.

2. Indigo

[n.]

- A kind of deep blue, one of the seven prismatic colors.
- 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.