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genista tinctoria
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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:
dyer's broom \dyer's broom\, dyer's-broom \dyer's-broom\n. small Eurasian shrub (Genista tinctoria) having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and U.S.; sometimes grown as an ornamental. Syn: woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's weed, dyer's rocket, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, {Genista tinctoria}. [WordNet 1.5]
