whin English

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What does whin mean?

whin

— noun (= whinstone) any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)

— noun (= gorse) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

— noun (= 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 ornamental

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gorse

whinstone

furze

woodwaxen

woadwaxen

greenweed

dyeweed

dyer’s-broom

dyer’s greenweed

Irish gorse

basalt

Ulex europaeus

Genista tinctoria

trappide

trap rock

trap

skylark