woadwaxen
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woad·wax·en
(wōd′wăk′sən)n.
See dyer's greenweed.
[Alteration of woodwaxen.]
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woadwaxen
(ˈwəʊdˌwæksən) orwoadwax
n
(Plants) another name for dyer's-greenweed
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Noun | 1. | woadwaxen - 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 broom - any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers Genista, genus Genista - chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom |
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