Indigo
['ɪndɪgəʊ] or ['ɪndɪɡo]
解釋/意思:
(noun.) a blue-violet color.
(noun.) deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye.
(adj.) having a color between blue and violet; 'indigo flowers' .
杰弗里整理--From WordNet
解釋/意思:
(n.) A kind of deep blue, one of the seven prismatic colors.
(n.) 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.
(a.) Having the color of, pertaining to, or derived from, indigo.
谢丽尔手打
解釋/意思:
n. a blue dye obtained from the stalks of the indigo plant.—Indigo blue the blue colouring matter of indigo a crystalline solid colourless and tasteless; Indigo plant a plant of the genus Indigofera from which indigo is obtained.
格拉迪斯校對
娱乐性解釋/意思：
To see indigo in a dream, denotes you will deceive friendly persons in order to cheat them out of their be longings. To see indigo water, foretells you will be involved in an ugly love affair.
伊米莉亚整理
例句/造句/用法:
- When the plantation indigo was worth three-fourths of the price of the best French indigo, it was, by this act, entitled to a bounty of 6d. 亞當·斯密. 國富論.
- In 1840 Fritzsch obtained from indigo a product which he called Aniline, from Anil, the Portuguese for indigo. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- In 1826 Unverdorben obtained from indigo a substance which he called Crystalline. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- The white light of the sun is composed of the seven colors: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet. Edward W. Byrn. 十九世紀發明進展.
- If we examine such a spectrum we find the following colors in order, each color imperceptibly fading into the next: violet, indigo, blue, green, yellow, orange, red. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Its color at first is of a dark indigo-blue tint, changing soon into a permanent black. 威廉K.大衛. 智者、化學家和偉大醫生的秘密.
- He now stood, a most sinister phantom, half his person being dyed of the deepest tint of indigo, leaning on the desk. 夏洛蒂·勃朗特. 雪麗.
- Moreover, by the mixture of these three colors in proper proportions, any color of the spectrum, such as yellow or indigo or orange, may be obtained. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
- Up to that time, dyes were few in number and were extracted solely from plants, principally from the indigo and madder plants. 伯莎M.克拉克. 科學通論.
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