woad

[植]菘蓝英释中释na European plant, Isatis tinctoria, formerly cultivated for its leaves, which yield a blue dye: family Brassicaceae (crucifers)

1 Their bare flesh is heavily decorated with tattoos made by their women with the dye of madder and woad, using the pinpricks of bone needles..他们身上还饰有纹身。 纹身是由妇女们用染出的茜红和菘蓝色彩，用骨头作成的针刺成的。

2 Little is known about Sir John except that a gang frightened him into allowing ten barrels of woad to be removed from his keeping in Guildford Castle..外界对于约翰爵士的身世知之甚少，仅知道一帮歹徒在威胁他之后，掠走了他存放在吉尔福德城堡里的10桶靛蓝。