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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, bush, genus Genista, broom


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