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# 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indigo/#m1)

2) A dark blue dye, first made from a plant, used for colouring cloth such as jeans. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indigo/#m2)

### 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 →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indigo/#x1)
- Her jeans were dyed indigo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indigo/#x2)
- The night sky turned deep indigo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indigo/#x3)
- People once grew the indigo plant to make blue dye. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indigo/#x4)
- I painted the sea indigo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indigo/#x5)
- How many colours are in the rainbow? Seven, including indigo. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indigo/#x6)

### 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.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/chemistry/27-dyes-inks-colouring/16/)
- [Its colours are always in the same order: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/school/world/84-mirrors-shadows-colours/11/)

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «indigo» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/I/indigo/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.