woadwaxen
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Noun (1)
- 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: woodwaxendyer's greenweeddyer's-broomdyeweedgreenweedwhinGenista tinctoria
Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)
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]