Woad-waxen

2 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  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}.
     [1913 Webster]



From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  woadwaxen
       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
           greenweed}, {dyer's-broom}, {dyeweed}, {greenweed}, {whin},
            {Genista tinctoria}]