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Whin
noun
1.
Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe.
Synonyms:
furze
,
gorse
,
Irish gorse
,
Ulex europaeus
.
2.
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
,
woadwaxen
,
woodwaxen
.
3.
Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt).
Synonym:
whinstone
.
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Words linked to "Whin" :
shrub
,
stone
,
genus Ulex
,
Irish gorse
,
rock
,
woadwaxen
,
gorse
,
Ulex
,
Genista
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bush
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