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whin
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun whin has 3 senses
- whin(n = noun.plant) furze, gorse, irish gorse, ulex europaeus - very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe; Array is a member of genus ulex, ulex
- whin(n = noun.plant) dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, genista tinctoria, greenweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxen - 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; Array is a kind of broom
- whin(n = noun.object) whinstone - any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt); Array is a kind of rock, stone
is a kind of bush, shrub
is a member of genista, genus genista
CIDE DICTIONARY
whin, n. [W. chwyn weeds, a single weed.].
- Gorse; furze. See Furze. [1913 Webster]"Through the whins, and by the cairn." [1913 Webster]
- Same as Whinstone. [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
whin, n. (in sing. or pl.) furze, gorse.
whin, n.
1 hard dark esp. basaltic rock or stone.
2 a piece of this.
1 hard dark esp. basaltic rock or stone.
2 a piece of this.
Etymology
ME: orig. unkn.
ROGET THESAURUS
whin
Vegetable
N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.
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