indigo

«indigo» in Mova's school dictionary: A deep blue-purple colour, one of the seven colours named… — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples, with 2 sentences of Mova's corpora that use it.

part of speech

noun (indigo — uncountable); adjective (indigo)

meaning for a pupil

1) A deep blue-purple colour, one of the seven colours named in the rainbow (between blue and violet). tree →

2) A dark blue dye, first made from a plant, used for colouring cloth such as jeans. tree →

sense in the lessons

In science the rainbow is remembered as red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, violet («Richard Of York Gave Battle In Vain» or «ROY G BIV»); in art indigo is a dark blue. Phrases: «indigo blue», «indigo dye».

examples

• Indigo comes between blue and violet in the rainbow. tree →
• Her jeans were dyed indigo. tree →
• The night sky turned deep indigo. tree →
• People once grew the indigo plant to make blue dye. tree →
• I painted the sea indigo. tree →
• How many colours are in the rainbow? Seven, including indigo. tree →

note

Uncountable as a colour. Say «IN-di-go». Many people find indigo hard to see in a real rainbow; it was added to make seven colours.

In the corpora

• Indigo was once made from plants; now it is usually made in factories.
• Its colours are always in the same order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.

Trees and pragmatics

Every meaning and example of «indigo» parsed by Mova, each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.