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Wild indigo   /waɪld ˈɪndəgˌoʊ/   Listen
Wild indigo

noun
1.
Any of several plants of the genus Baptisia.  Synonym: false indigo.






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"Wild indigo" Quotes from Famous Books



... the huts of the natives, a plant with tuberous roots, exactly like cassava (yucca). It is called cumapana, and is cooked by being baked on the ashes. It grows spontaneously on the banks of the Cassiquiare.) We saw wild indigo around the missions of San Miguel de Davipe, San Carlos, and Mandavaca. No doubt can exist that several nations of America, particularly the Mexicans, long before the conquest, employed real indigo in their hieroglyphic paintings; and that small cakes of this substance were sold at the great ...
— Equinoctial Regions of America V2 • Alexander von Humboldt



Words linked to "Wild indigo" :   Baptisia, Baptisia lactea, blue false indigo, white false indigo, genus Baptisia, horsefly weed, woody plant, Baptisia australis, ligneous plant, Baptisia tinctoria, rattle weed, indigo broom



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