wood·wax·en (w d w k s n)n. See dyer's greenweed. [Middle English wodewaxen, from Old English wuduweaxe : wudu, wood + weaxan, to grow; see wax2.] |
woodwaxen [ˈwʊdˌwæksən]
n
(Life Sciences & Allied Applications / Plants) another name for dyer's-greenweed
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| Noun | 1. |  woodwaxen - 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 ornamentalbroom - 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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