greenweed

Noun

WordNet 3.0

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 ornamentalSynonyms: woodwaxen dyer's greenweed dyer's-broom dyeweed whin woadwaxen Genista tinctoria

Green-broom \Green"-broom`\, n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Genista (G. tinctoria); dyer's weed; -- called also greenweed. [1913 Webster]

Greenweed \Green"weed`\, n. (Bot.) See Greenbroom. [1913 Webster]

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]