dyer's greenweed


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dy·er's greenweed

(dī′ərz)
n.
A small shrub (Genista tinctoria) in the pea family, native to Eurasia, having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye. Also called dyer's broom, woadwaxen, woodwaxen.
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Noun1.dyer's greenweed - small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dyedyer's greenweed - 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
dyer's-broom, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxen, whin
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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