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indigo bunting |
indigo finch |
indigo plant |
indigo snake |
indigo squill |
indigofera
| indigofera anil
| indigofera suffruticosa
| indigofera tinctoria
| indigogen
| indigometer
indigofera
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun indigofera has 1 sense
- indigofera(n = noun.plant) genus indigofera - genus of tropical herbs and shrubs having odd-pinnate leaves and spurred flowers in long racemes or spikes; Array is a kind of rosid dicot genus
is a member of papilionoideae, subfamily papilionoideae
CIDE DICTIONARY
indigofera, n. [NL., from E. indigo + L. ferre to bear.].
A genus of leguminous plants (family Leguminosae ) having many species, mostly in tropical countries, several of them yielding indigo, esp. Indigofera tinctoria , Indigofera suffroticosa , and Indigofera Anil . [1913 Webster]
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