Teal vs. Indigo

Tealnoun

(countable) Any of various small freshwater ducks of the genus Anas that are brightly coloured and have short necks.

Tealnoun

A dark, somewhat bluish-green colour; a dark cyan.

Tealadjective

Having a bluish-green colour

Tealnoun

Any one of several species of small fresh-water ducks of the genus Anas and the subgenera Querquedula and Nettion. The male is handsomely colored, and has a bright green or blue speculum on the wings.

Tealnoun

a shade of green tinged with blue;

Tealnoun

any of various small short-necked dabbling river ducks of Europe and America

Tealadjective

a bluish shade of green

Teal

Teal is a cyan-green color. Its name comes from that of a bird — the Eurasian teal (Anas crecca) — which presents a similarly colored stripe on its head.

Indigonoun

A purplish-blue colour

Indigonoun

An indigo-colored dye obtained from certain plants (the indigo plant or woad), or a similar synthetic dye.

Indigonoun

An indigo plant, such as from species in genera Indigofera, Amorpha (false indigo), Baptisia (wild indigo), and Psorothamnus and Dalea (indigo bush).

Indigoadjective

having a deep purplish-blue colour

Indigonoun

A kind of deep blue, one of the seven prismatic colors.

Indigonoun

A blue dyestuff obtained from several plants belonging to very different genera and orders, such as, the woad, Isatis tinctoria (family Cruciferae), Indigofera suffroticosa, Indigofera tinctoria (family Leguminosae), Indigofera Anil, Nereum tinctorium, Polygonum tinctorium Ait. (family Polygonaceae), etc.; called also natural indigo. It is a dark blue earthy substance, tasteless and odorless, with a copper-violet luster when rubbed. Indigo does not exist in the plants as such, but is obtained by decomposition of the glycoside indican.

Indigoadjective

Having the color of, pertaining to, or derived from, indigo.

Indigonoun

a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically

Indigonoun

deciduous subshrub of southeastern Asia having pinnate leaves and clusters of red or purple flowers; a source of indigo dye

Indigonoun

a blue-violet color

Indigo

Indigo is a deep color close to the color wheel blue (a primary color in the RGB color space), as well as to some variants of ultramarine, based on the ancient dye of the same name. The word comes from the Latin for Indian as the dye was originally exported to Europe from India.