Woad-waxen

Woad´-wax`en


n.1.(Bot.) A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; - called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen.
Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, published 1913 by G. & C. Merriam Co.