Woodwaxen

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

  Wood-wash \Wood"-wash`\, Wood-wax \Wood"-wax`\, Wood-waxen
  \Wood"-wax`en\, n. [AS. wuduweaxe.] (Bot.)
     Same as {Woadwaxen}.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

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