Woad is one of those plants which yield the deep blue colouring matter so greatly valued in the arts — Indigo.
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Woad
//wəʊd//
Synonyms for "woad" (11 found)
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60 translations across 36 languages.
Ancient Greek
1 entries- ἰσάτις noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Arabic
2 entries- سُدُوس noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- وَسْمَة noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Aramaic
3 entries- ܐܝܣܐܛܝܣ noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- ܐܝܣܛܝܣ noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- ܩܳܢܥܴܐ noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Breton
1 entries- glizin-Gwaskogn noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Bulgarian
1 entries- сърпица noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Catalan
2 entries- glast noun (blue dye made from the plant)
- herba del pastell noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Chinese
1 entries- 菘藍 /菘蓝 noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Czech
1 entries- boryt noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Danish
1 entries- vajd noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Dutch
2 entries- wede noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- wede noun (blue dye made from the plant)
Finnish
2 entries- morsinko noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- värimorsinko noun (Isatis tinctoria)
French
2 entries- guède noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- pastel noun (blue dye made from the plant)
German
2 entries- Färberwaid noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- Waid noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Gothic
1 entries- 𐍅𐌹𐌶𐌳𐌹𐌻𐌰 noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Hebrew
1 entries- אִיסָטִיס noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Hungarian
1 entries- festő csülleng noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Irish
3 entries- glaisin noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- vód noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- vód noun (blue dye made from the plant)
Italian
2 entries- glasto noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- guado noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Japanese
1 entries- 細葉大青 noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Latin
2 entries- glastum noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- isatis noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Old East Slavic
1 entries- синило noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Old English
1 entries- wād noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Persian
3 entries- برگ نیل noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- وسمه noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- کتم noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Polish
2 entries- siniło noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- urzet noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Portuguese
1 entries- pastel-dos-tintureiros noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Romanian
1 entries- drobușor noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Russian
3 entries- ва́йда noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- сини́ло noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- сини́льник noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Scottish Gaelic
2 entries- guirmean noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- guirmean noun (blue dye made from the plant)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- sȁč noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- vȑbōvnīk noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- вр̏бо̄внӣк noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- са̏ч noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Slovak
1 entries- farbovník noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Slovene
2 entries- oblȃjst noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- sílina noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Spanish
2 entries- glasto noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- yerba pastel noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Swedish
1 entries- vejde noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Ukrainian
1 entries- сини́льник noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Upper Sorbian
1 entries- sywina noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Welsh
2 entries- glaslys noun (Isatis tinctoria)
- llysiau'r lliw noun (Isatis tinctoria)
Sample sentences
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Woad was then placed on the regular shopping list of alternative crops.
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The cultivation of woad had taken hold in southern England during the early 1580s, but this dispute provides the earliest evidence of its cultivation in the fields around Tewkesbury.
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To prevent this, it was enacted, that no wines of Gaſcony and Guienne, or woads of Tholouſe, should be imported into England, except in ships belonging to the King, or some of his ſubjects; and that all ſuch wines and woads imported in foreign bottoms ſhould be forfeited.
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