Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. The indigo plant or the blue dye obtained from it.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A somewhat woody leguminous plant, Indigoferȧ Anil, from whose leaves and stalks the West Indian indigo is made. It is a common species in Mexico and tropical America, and is a larger plant than the Asiatic I. tinctoria, which is the species ordinarily cultivated for the production of indigo.
- n. Indigo.
- n. A derivative of aniline containing the group NC6H5.
- n. A Cuban name of the blue variety of the vaqueta, a bass-like fish of the West Indies, Hypoplectrus unicolor (variety indigo of Poey).
Wiktionary
- n. The indigo shrub; or the indigo dye obtained from the plant.
- n. organic chemistry Any imine in which the N-radical is a phenyl (or substituted phenyl) group.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Bot.) A West Indian plant (Indigofera anil), one of the original sources of indigo; also, the indigo dye.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a blue dye obtained from plants or made synthetically
- n. shrub of West Indies and South America that is a source of indigo dye
Etymologies
- From Middle French anil, Portuguese anil. (Wiktionary)
- French, from Portuguese, from Arabic an-nīl, the indigo plant : al-, the + Persian nīl (from Sanskrit nīlī, from nīla-, dark blue). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“If someone applies an "anil" tag to the post, and someone views the "anil" tag aggregation page, will that display convey the fact that I'm being sarcastic?”
Accountability and Culture in a Loosely Coupled World - Anil Dash
“What if the "anil" tag page is the first Google result, and someone who's never met me and doesn't know my sense of humor finds that first?”
Accountability and Culture in a Loosely Coupled World - Anil Dash
“So A-listers, such as anil and haughey, condemn charles as close minded and no longer worth to read.”
“To see a sample message for a totally unknown type, you can see what ".anil" files return, or for one that's a little more reasonable, you can see the message that a user would presumably get for PDF files if they didn't have Adobe Acrobat installed.”
“Fritsche in the same year by the distillation of indigo with caustic potash developed a product which he also called aniline, the name being derived from the Portuguese word anil, meaning indigo.”
“| Reply very very funny, thanks anil. i wonder how the Facebook Username Dispute Resolution Community will deal with #facesquatters bob. hitching.net”
“Some of them might even be, to quote anil dash, "despicable criminals of the worst sort".”
“| Reply max, that was brilliant. daveD: Arrogant? you so don't know anil. anil: this post needs more of teh kittees. you also forgot fake steve jobs. you have to admit his prank last year was clever. liza”
“The people of the coast continue planting cotton, spinning it, dyeing it with indigo, anil, purple and wood-based tints.”
“After the raw materials have been ground, sifted, dampened, kneaded and formed into clay figures, another step in the process is added: decorative paint from cooked anil.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘anil’.
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Of Arabic Origin
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A Sequel to 250 Spelling Words
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Aeolus's Vocabulary
Words concerning or relating to wind, air, sky, or heavens! Anything concerning Aeolus (King of the Winds) will be collected here.
aeromancy, zephyr, favonius, boreas, ether, etesian, empyrean, wind, breeze, gust, cyclone, nor'easter and 18 more...
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Loanwords,Arabic
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admiral, adobe, albatross, alchemy, alcohol, alcove, alembic, alfalfa, algebra, algorithm, alidade, alizarin and 15 more...
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fbharjo's Words
jumelle, kef, kenspeckle, lautitious, essentic, pilpulistic, impavid, cicurant, clou, chrysostomic, miasma, teleology and 1625 more...
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Dyes & Pigments
gamboge, anil, catechu, cinnabar, vermilion, ponceau, cochineal, kermes, lac, eosin, azure, indigo and 134 more...
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Chromonyms
These chromonyms are defined as colors in at least one dictionary (mostly MW3). (Actually there's one fake, for reasons I'll explain someday.) They are all one-word nouns such as "kelly", which can...
absinthe, acacia, acorn, alabaster, alesan, almond, aloma, amaranth, amber, amethyst, anemone, anil and 821 more...
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cricketann's Words
time, neck, fallacy, huzzah, lithe, wayback, anil, chaste, mineral, biota, crepuscular, dawn and 16 more...
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