1. (noun) 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

• dyer's greenweed
• dyer's-broom
• genista tinctoria
• greenweed
• whin
• woadwaxen
• woodwaxen

1. (noun) 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

• broom

1. (noun) 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

• genista
• genus genista