woodwaxen (HyperDic hyper-dictionary)

English > 1 sense of the word *woodwaxen*:
NOUN	plant	woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria	small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye

English > *woodwaxen*: 1 sense > noun 1, plant
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.
Synonyms	dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, 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

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