Woad-waxen

Synonyms for "woad-waxen" (7 found)

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Related words (3)

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6 translations across 6 languages.

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Bulgarian

1 entries
  • жълтуга noun (Genista tinctoria)

Catalan

1 entries
  • ginesta de tintorers noun (Genista tinctoria)

Dutch

1 entries
  • verfbrem noun (Genista tinctoria)

Finnish

1 entries
  • pensasväriherne noun (Genista tinctoria)

Old English

1 entries
  • wuduweaxe noun (Genista tinctoria)

Romanian

1 entries
  • drobiță noun (Genista tinctoria)

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The woad waxen (Genista tinctoria), common enough near Salem, is seldom found inland, and the same holds good for the barberry and privet, which grow so abundantly near the coast and which have probably been introduced for two hundred years.

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[…]but after a time he left the sages, and leaped above the mayweeds, the felt-wyrts, the savouries, and the woad-waxens.

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Woad-waxen, which in modern English is wax-weed, was one of the plants of many virtues brought by the earliest Pilgrims,[…].

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