| NOUN | plant | whin, gorse, furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus | very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers |
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| plant | whin, woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria | small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye | |
| object | whin, whinstone | any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) |
| Meaning | Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe. | |
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| Synonyms | gorse, furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus | |
| Member of | Ulex, genus Ulex | genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs |
| Broader | shrub, bush | A low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems |
| Spanish | aulaga, tojo, ulex | |
| Catalan | argelaga, gatosa | |
| 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, dyeweed, greenweed, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria | |
| Member of | Genista, genus Genista | chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia |
| Broader | broom | Any of various shrubs of the genera ... / genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers |
| Spanish | gualda, woadwaxen | |
| Catalan | woadwaxen | |
| Meaning | Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt). | |
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| Synonym | whinstone | |
| Broader | rock, stone | A lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter |
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