dyeweed

dyeweed

(ˈdaɪˌwiːd)

n

(Plants) another name for dyer's-greenweed

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dyeweed - 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, woadwaxen, woodwaxen, whin broom - any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers Genista, genus Genista - chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom

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