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from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun The white or arctic fox, Vulpes lagopus.
  • noun A genus of plants of the natural order Cruciferæ, the type of the tribe Isatideæ, having the pod large, orbicular, oblong or linear, corneous, and with the margin coriaceous or foliaceous.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun (Bot.) A genus of herbs, some species of which, especially the Isatis tinctoria, yield a blue dye similar to indigo; woad.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • noun Old World genus of annual to perennial herbs: woad

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  • Also, the white or Arctic fox (Canis lagopus), named by J. G. Gmelin, 1760, Canis isatis.

    September 6, 2008