dyer's greenweed

noun

woad-waxen, Genista tinctoria

Similar
woodwaxendyer's-broomdyeweedgreenweedwhinwoadwaxenGenista tinctoria

Meanings

noundyer's greenweed (countable and uncountable, plural dyer's greenweeds)

plural dyer's greenweeds

  1. countableuncountablewoad-waxen, Genista tinctoria

Synonyms & antonyms

nounsmall 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

Similar
woodwaxendyer's-broomdyeweedgreenweedwhinwoadwaxenGenista tinctoria
Broader

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Chicago

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