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Definitions

Noun

1. 1
   Any of several plants, of the genus Genista, related to broom
2. 2
   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 wordnet

Synonyms

All synonyms

dyer's greenweeddyer's-broomdyeweedgenista tinctoriawhinwoadwaxen

Etymology

From green + weed.