WOODWAXEN

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does woodwaxen mean? 

• WOODWAXEN (noun)
  The noun WOODWAXEN has 1 sense:

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

  Familiarity information: WOODWAXEN used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• WOODWAXEN (noun)

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Meaning:

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

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

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

Hypernyms ("woodwaxen" is a kind of...):

broom (any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers)

Holonyms ("woodwaxen" is a member of...):

Genista; genus Genista (chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom)