English dictionary
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English noun: whin | |||
| 1. | whin (plant) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe | ||
| Synonyms | furze, gorse, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | bush, shrub | ||
| Member meronym | genus Ulex, Ulex | ||
| 2. | whin (plant) 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 | ||
| Synonyms | dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxen | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | broom | ||
| Member meronym | Genista, genus Genista | ||
| 3. | whin (object) any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) | ||
| Synonyms | whinstone | ||
| Broader (hypernym) | rock, stone | ||
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