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Old World genus of annual to perennial herbs woad
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isatis
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Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Isatis \I"sa*tis\ (?; 277), n. [L., a kind of plant, Gr. ? woad.] (Bot.) A genus of herbs, some species of which, especially the Isatis tinctoria , yield a blue dye similar to indigo; woad.
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Isatis is a genus of about 30 species of flowering plants in the family Brassicaceae , native to the Mediterranean region east to central Asia . The genus includes woad ( Isatis tinctoria ). In China, the root is made into a medicinal tea commonly called ...
Usage examples of isatis.
This plant, known as Isatis tinctoria, is still grown in France and Flanders.
It gave him particular pleasure to make the acquaintance of woad, the isatis tinctoria, from the juice of which a dark blue could be extracted.