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The Collaborative International Dictionary
dyer's greenweed

Woad-waxen \Woad"-wax`en\, n. [Cf. Wood-wax.] (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.

WordNet
dyer's greenweed

n. small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental [syn: woodwaxen, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria]

Usage examples of "dyer's greenweed".

Blue used woad or indigo alone, and dark green was produced by overdyeing blue fabric with weld, dyer's greenweed or a similar yellow dye.