whin

Noun
  1. Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers;
    Common throughout western Europe (synset 112595371)
    is a type of: bush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
    belongs to: genus ulex, ulex - genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs: gorse
    same as: furze, gorse, irish gorse, ulex europaeus
  2. 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 (synset 112551323)
    is a type of: broom - any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
    belongs to: genista, genus genista - chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom
    same as: dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, genista tinctoria, greenweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxen
  3. Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) (synset 109501340)
    is a type of: rock, stone - a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter
    same as: whinstone

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