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woodwaxen

 

  3  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  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Wood-wash  \Wood"-wash`\,  Wood-wax  \Wood"-wax`\,  Wood-waxen 
  \Wood"-wax`en\,  n.  [AS.  wuduweaxe.]  (Bot.) 
  Same  as  {Woadwaxen}. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  woodwaxen 
  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:  {dyer's  greenweed}, 
  {dyer's-broom},  {dyeweed},  {greenweed},  {whin},  {woadwaxen}, 
  {Genista  tinctoria}]




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