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whin
noun(whin)
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-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyeweed, genista tinctoria, greenweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxen,
whin
noun(whin)
very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
Synonyms: furze, gorse, irish gorse, ulex europaeus,
whin
noun(whin)
any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
Synonyms: whinstone,

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