whin

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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 ornamental
• Syn:
woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed,
woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria
• Hypernyms:
broom
• Member Holonyms:
Genista, genus Genista
2. very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers;
common throughout western Europe
• Syn:
gorse, furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus
• Hypernyms:
shrub, bush
• Member Holonyms:
Ulex, genus Ulex
3. any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
• Syn:
whinstone
• Hypernyms:
rock, stone

• Từ đồng nghĩa / Synonyms:
  whinstone, woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria, gorse, furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus