whinstone, whin
(noun) any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria
(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
gorse, furze, whin, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus
(noun) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
Source: WordNet® 3.1
whin (countable and uncountable, plural whins)
Gorse; furze (Ulex spp.).
The plant woad-waxen (Genista tinctoria).
whin
Whinstone.
Source: Wiktionary
Whin, n. Etym: [W. chwyn weeds, a single weed.]
1. (Bot.) (a) Gorse; furze. See Furze. Through the whins, and by the cairn. Burns.
(b) Woad-waxed. Gray.
2. Same as Whinstone. [Prov. Eng.] Moor whin or Petty whin (Bot.), a low prickly shrub (Genista Anglica) common in Western Europe.
– Whin bruiser, a machine for cutting and bruising whin, or furze, to feed cattle on.
РWhin Sparrow (Zo̦l.), the hedge sparrow. [Prov. Eng.] -- Whin Thrush (Zo̦l.), the redwing. [Prov. Eng.]
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
23 December 2024
(noun) Australian tree having hard white timber and glossy green leaves with white flowers followed by one-seeded glossy blue fruit
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