Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Indigofera

Indigofera , noun

[New Latin, from English indigo + Latin ferre to bear.]

(Botany) A genus of leguminous plants (family Leguminosae) having many species, mostly in tropical countries, several of them yielding indigo, esp. Indigofera tinctoria, Indigofera suffroticosa, and Indigofera Anil.