woad
glastum
isatis tinctoria latin

He couldn't have looked more startled if she'd painted herself with woad.

Been in the family since they was running around in nothing but woad.

The bright blue woad on his body was now mixed with sweat and deep red blood.

While the others were busy at these chores, I sought the woad.

The skulls and the carving are washed with blue woad.

The mare was old but she came alive when the woad spiked the air.

Chemicals from woad might be used to prevent cancer, as it can produce high levels of glucobrassicin.

Napoleon was forced to dye uniforms with woad, which had an inferior blue colour.

Will said, 'Gerard says here that woad flowers are yellow.'

The Shaman stood over him, and no one could see his face behind the woad and the clay.

The woad factory is, of course, long gone.

Her clothing was smeared and stained with blue woad and red blood.

For example, land could be rented on the condition that the tenant planted vines or woad.

Around her, the warriors of the ancestors painted the serpent-spear in blue woad on their arms.

The preparation of woad for dyeing is carried on.

In Germany, there are attempts to use woad to protect wood against decay without dangerous chemicals.

This place was then called Isatica which is Latin for woad.

The blue cloth for her dress was hand-dyed with woad using a mediaeval recipe.

This name means "the hill where woad grows".

The island prospered with exports of wheat and woad.

Sir William Pelham owned a woad mill in this area.

A major market for woad was at Görlitz in Silesia.

Laws were passed in some parts of Europe to protect the woad industry from the competition of the indigo trade.

The color was brilliant, incongruous, bright as the woad with which this man's ancestors had painted themselves before going forth to war.

There was blood everywhere, and sweat, and dust, and woad.

Woad (Isatis tinctoria) was important as a source of a blue dye.

Isatis tinctoria (woad) was used in the past to produce the colour indigo.

The yellow could be mixed with the blue from woad (Isatis tinctoria) to produce greens such as Lincoln green.

The genus includes woad (Isatis tinctoria).

He also published a booklet on the medical benefits of Acacia and of woad (Isatis tinctoria).

The town enjoyed a period of commercial prosperity largely due to the cultivation of Isatis Tinctoria, commonly known as woad.

Woad, a chemically identical dye derived from the plant Isatis tinctoria (Brassicaceae), was used instead.

Skelton informs us that one of the early dyes discovered by the ancient Egyptians was "blue woad (Isatis tinctoria)."

Hamburger M. Isatis tinctoria - From the rediscovery of an ancient medicinal plant towards a novel anti-inflammatory phytopharmaceutical.

"Glucobrassicin enhancement in woad (Isatis tinctoria) leaves by chemical and physical treatments" (Journal of the Science of Food and Agriculture)

Faial's early economic growth was propelled by cultivation and processing of woad, a blue-coloured dye produced from a plant of the same name (in Latin, Isatis tinctoria).

Plant-based dyes such as woad (Isatis tinctoria), indigo, saffron, and madder were raised commercially and were important trade goods in the economies of Asia and Europe.

He begins to cultivate wheat and gather woad plants for export (specifically Isatis tinctoria which was also produced in the Picardy and Normandy Regions of France until that time).

The non-native noxious weed dyer's woad (Isatis tinctoria) directly competes with the mariposa lily by monopolizing water and nutrients and producing allelopathic substances which inhibit its germination.

After a period of small subsistence agriculture, the local economy began to concentrate on a few chief exports: initially, lichen (Roccella tinctoria) and woad (Isatis tinctoria), later the introduction of wheat and corn crops.

Named Färberwaid (Isatis tinctoria L.) or German Indigo, of the plant family (Brassicaceae), in the Iron Age settlement of the Heuneburg, Germany, impressions of the seeds have been found on pottery.

From the west came Flemish blankets, from the east wood, pelts, wax and honey, and the middle section controlled the German indigo (Isatis tinctoria) of the Thuringian Basin as well as the mining products of the Saxon Ore Mountains.

The dyers of Lincoln, a cloth town in the high Middle Ages, produced the cloth by dyeing it with woad (Isatis tinctoria) to give it a strong blue, then overdyeing it yellow with weld (Reseda luteola) or dyers' broom, Genista tinctoria.