woadwaxen

woad·wax·en  (wdwksn)

n.

See dyer's greenweed.

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[Alteration of woodwaxen.]

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Noun

1.

woadwaxen - 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, 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