Genista tinctoria


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Related to Genista tinctoria: dyer's greenweed, Juniperus communis
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Noun1.Genista tinctoria - small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dyeGenista tinctoria - 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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Existen en el grupo de isoflavonas unos fitoestrogenos llamados genistein (derivado de la Genista tinctoria) y promensil (derivado del Trofolium pratense') con iguales caracteristicas.
The following species were used to study the chemical composition on the black soil: Stipa pennata L., Inula hirta L., Galium ruthenicum Willd., Fragaria viridis (Duch.) Weston, Genista tinctoria (L.) Maxim., on the meadow solonetz--Filipendula ulmaria Juss, Artemisia pontica L., Festuca sulcata (Hack.) Nym., Artemisia nitrosa Web., Plantago cornuti Gouan, Galatella biflora (L.) Nees.
Flavonoid compounds of Genista tinctoria. Lloydia 34, 258-259.