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woadwaxen |
2 definitions found From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: 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}. From WordNet r 1.6 [wn]: woadwaxen n : small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental [syn: {woodwaxen}, {dyer's greenweed}, {dyer's-broom}, {dyeweed}, {greenweed}, {whin}, {Genista tinctoria}]
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