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WOADWAXEN
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
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 ("woadwaxen" 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 ("woadwaxen" is a member of...):
Genista; genus Genista (chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom)
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