English Explanatory Dictionary

dyer's woad

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. A plant of species Isatis tinctoria, which is the source of the blue dye woad used in the Middle Ages, before being replaced as source by Indigofera tinctoria.

Word forms

dyer's woad dyer's woads

Synonyms

woad glastrum asp of Jerusalem

Related words

indigo
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