Hypertext Webster Gateway: "greenweed"
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Woad-waxen \Woad"-wax`en\, n. [Cf. {Wood-wax}.] (Bot.)
A leguminous plant ({Genista tinctoria}) of Europe and
Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also
{greenwood}, {greenweed}, {dyer's greenweed}, and {whin},
{wood-wash}, {wood-wax}, and {wood-waxen}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Green-broom \Green"-broom`\, n. (Bot.)
A plant of the genus {Genista} ({G. tinctoria}); dyer's weed;
-- called also {greenweed}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) (web1913)
Greenweed \Green"weed`\, n. (Bot.)
See {Greenbroom}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
greenweed
n : small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that
yield a dye; common as weed in England and United States;
sometimes grown as an ornamental [syn: {woodwaxen}, {dyer's
greenweed}, {dyer's-broom}, {dyeweed}, {whin}, {woadwaxen},
{Genista tinctoria}]
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