whin

whin ¹  (hwn, wn)

n.

See gorse.

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[Middle English whinne, probably of Scandinavian origin.]

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whin ²  (hwn, wn)

n.

A whinstone.

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[Middle English quin.]

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whin¹

n

(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) another name for gorse

[from Scandinavian; compare Old Danish hvine (græs), Norwegian hvine, Swedish hven]

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whin²

n

(Earth Sciences / Geological Science) short for whinstone

[quin, of obscure origin]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	whin - 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.	whin - 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"

Translations

whin [wɪn] N → tojo m

whin

n (esp Brit) → Ginster m

whin [wɪn] n (Bot) → ginestrone m