Genus Isatis (Noun)
Meaning
Old World genus of annual to perennial herbs: woad.
Classification
Nouns denoting plants.
Examples
- The dye is produced from the leaves of the plant Isatis tinctoria, which is a species in the genus Isatis.
- Woad has been used in the past, obtained from the leaves of Isatis tinctoria, but has largely been replaced by synthetic dyes, and is now mainly of interest as a plant in the genus Isatis.
- Indirubin is a chemical compound isolated from the plant species Isatis tinctoria of the genus Isatis and Polygonum tinctorum.
- The chemicals used for resist are indanthrene, prussian blue, ceruleine blue from woad leaves in genus Isatis.
- Isatis tinctoria is a biennial plant of the genus Isatis in the family Brassicaceae that is traditionally considered the only source of the blue dye woad.