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whin

PRIMARY MEANINGS OF: whin

1
 n
very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
2
 n
any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
FULL DEFINITIONS OF: whin
1

n very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

Synonyms:
Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus, furze, gorse
Type of:
bush, shrub
a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

n 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:
Genista tinctoria, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxen
Type of:
broom
any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
2

n any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)

Synonyms:
whinstone
Type of:
rock, stone
a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
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