different between indigo vs tumbleweed

English

Etymology

16th century (as indico, modern spelling from the 17th century), Spanish índigo, Portuguese endego (modern índigo), or Dutch (via Portuguese) indigo, all from Latin indicum (“indigo”), from Ancient Greek ??????? (Indikòn, “Indian dye”), from ????? (Indía).

Pronunciation

• (UK) enPR: ?n'd?g?, IPA^(key): /??n.d?????/
• (US) enPR: ?n'd?g?, IPA^(key): /??nd???o?/

Noun

indigo (countable and uncountable, plural indigos or indigoes)

1. A purplish-blue colour
2. An indigo-colored dye obtained from certain plants (the indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye.
3. An indigo plant, such as from species in genera Indigofera, Amorpha (false indigo), Baptisia (wild indigo), and Psorothamnus and Dalea (indigo bush).

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Adjective

indigo (comparative more indigo, superlative most indigo)

1. having a deep purplish-blue colour

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Dutch

Pronunciation

Noun

indigo n (plural indigo's)

1. The colour indigo.

Adjective

indigo (invariable, comparative meer indigo, superlative meest indigo)

1. indigo-coloured.

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Finnish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /?indi?o/, [?indi?o?]
• Rhymes: -indi?o
• Syllabification: in?di?go

Noun

indigo

1. indigo (color)

Declension

Adjective

indigo (comparative indigompi, superlative indigoin)

1. indigo (being of that color)

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French

Noun

indigo m (plural indigos)

1. indigo (color)

Adjective

indigo (feminine singular indigoe, masculine plural indigos, feminine plural indigoes)

1. indigo (being of that color)

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Italian

Verb

indigo

1. first-person singular present indicative of indigere

Romanian

Etymology

From French indigo.

Noun

indigo n (plural indigouri)

1. indigo

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Adjective

indigo m or f or n (indeclinable)

1. indigo

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English

Etymology

tumble +? weed

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?t?mb?lwi?d/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?t?mb?l?wid/
• Rhymes: -i?d

Noun

tumbleweed (countable and uncountable, plural tumbleweeds)

1. Any plant which habitually breaks away from its roots in the autumn, and is driven by the wind, as a light, rolling mass, over the fields and prairies; as witch grass, wild indigo, Amaranthus albus, etc.
2. (attributive) Describing unwanted silence and inactivity. Often used of a situation when one makes a statement that is ignored or ill-received by one's audience, as the resultant silence is likened to that of a desolate desert with rolling tumbleweeds.
3. A tan colour, like that of a tumbleweed.

Derived terms

• tumbleweed moment

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Further reading

• tumbleweed on Wikipedia.Wikipedia