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whin

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whin 1  (hwn, wn)
n.
See gorse.
[Middle English whinne, probably of Scandinavian origin.]
whin 2  (hwn, wn)
n.
A whinstone.
[Middle English quin.]
whin
Noun
Chiefly Brit same as gorse [from Old Norse]
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Noun1.whinwhin - very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
furze, gorse, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus
genus Ulex, Ulex - genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs: gorse
bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
2.whinwhin - 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, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxen
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
3.whin - any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
whinstone
rock, stone - a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"


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