Meaning | small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental. |
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Synonyms | woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria |
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Member of | Genista, genus Genista | chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia |
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Broader | broom | Any of various shrubs of the genera ... / genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers |
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Spanish | gualda, woadwaxen |
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Catalan | woadwaxen |
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