indigo-plant
A plant yielding indigo; spec. a plant of the genus Indigofera: cf. indigo 2.
| 1757 H. Baker in Phil. Trans. XI. 137 (title) The Effects of the Opuntia, or Prickly Pear, and of the Indigo Plant. 1779 Forrest Voy. N. Guinea 270 In that part of the country, the indigo plant taggum grows abundantly amidst the long grass. 1796 Stedman Surinam II. xxvii. 303, I shall present the curious with a drawing of the indigo plant. 1870 Yeats Nat. Hist. Comm. 216 The indigo plant grows best in the East Indies. |