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WHIN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
Synonyms:
whin; whinstone
Classified under:
Nouns denoting natural objects (not man-made)
Hypernyms ("whin" is a kind of...):
rock; stone (a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter)
Sense 2
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-broom; dyer's greenweed; dyeweed; Genista tinctoria; greenweed; whin; woadwaxen; woodwaxen
Classified under:
Hypernyms ("whin" is a kind of...):
broom (any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers)
Holonyms ("whin" is a member of...):
Genista; genus Genista (chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
Synonyms:
furze; gorse; Irish gorse; Ulex europaeus; whin
Classified under:
Nouns denoting plants
Hypernyms ("whin" is a kind of...):
bush; shrub (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)
Holonyms ("whin" is a member of...):
genus Ulex; Ulex (genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs: gorse)
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