Hypertext Webster Gateway: "woodwaxen"
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)
Wood-wash \Wood"-wash`\, Wood-wax \Wood"-wax`\, Wood-waxen
\Wood"-wax`en\, n. [AS. wuduweaxe.] (Bot.)
Same as {Woadwaxen}.
From WordNet (r) 1.7 (wn)
woodwaxen
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: {dyer's greenweed},
{dyer's-broom}, {dyeweed}, {greenweed}, {whin}, {woadwaxen},
{Genista tinctoria}]
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