| NOUN | plant | woadwaxen, woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, Genista tinctoria | small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye |
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| 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, whin, 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 | |
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