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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. 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;
[syn: woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria]


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Woad-waxen \Woad"-wax`en\, n. [Cf. Wood-wax.] (Bot.) A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Wood-wash \Wood"-wash`\, Wood-wax \Wood"-wax`\, Wood-waxen \Wood"-wax`en\, n. [AS. wuduweaxe.] (Bot.) Same as Woadwaxen. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

woodwaxen n 1: 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 [syn: woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria]