whin

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whin Definition

• (n) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
• (n) small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental
• (n) any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)

whin Synonyms

• dyer's greenweed
• dyer's-broom
• dyeweed
• furze
• Genista tinctoria
• gorse
• greenweed
• Irish gorse
• Ulex europaeus
• whin
• whinstone
• woadwaxen
• woodwaxen