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Dyer's Greenweed

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Noun

1. dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, genista tinctoria, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, woodwaxen

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

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Dyer's Greenweed

see synonyms of dyer's greenweed
noun
a small Eurasian leguminous shrub, Genista tinctoria, whose yellow flowers yield a yellow dye, formerly mixed with woad to produce the colour Kendal green
. Also called: dyeweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxen

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Dyer's Greenweed

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n.
A small shrub (Genista tinctoria) in the pea family, native to Eurasia, having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye. Also called dyer's broom, woadwaxen, woodwaxen.

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