English
Detailed Synonyms for whin in English
whin:
whin [the ~] noun
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the whin
– any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) 1 -
the 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 1the dyer's greenweed; the woadwaxen; the greenweed; the dyer's-broom; the Genista tinctoria; the woodwaxen; the whin; the dyeweed– 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 1 -
the whin
– very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe 1the whin; the furze; the Irish gorse; the gorse; the Ulex europaeus– very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe 1