isatis tinctoria

1. 1.

   European biennial formerly grown for the blue coloring matter yielded by its leaves

   Synonymsdyer's woad

   Broaderwoad

   Part ofIsatis

Questions about isatis tinctoria

What does isatis tinctoria mean?

isatis tinctoria means "European biennial formerly grown for the blue coloring matter yielded by its leaves".

What is another word for isatis tinctoria?

Close synonyms include dyer's woad. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is isatis tinctoria a common word?

isatis tinctoria is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.