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DYER'S GREENWEED

Dictionary entry overview: What does dyer's greenweed mean?

• DYER'S GREENWEED (noun)
The noun DYER'S GREENWEED has 1 sense:

1. small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental

Familiarity information: DYER'S GREENWEED used as a noun is very rare.

Dictionary entry details

• DYER'S GREENWEED (noun)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental

Classified under:

Nouns denoting plants

Synonyms:

dyer's greenweed; dyer's-broom; dyeweed; Genista tinctoria; greenweed; woadwaxen; woodwaxen; whin

Hypernyms ("dyer's greenweed" is a kind of...):

broom (any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers)

Holonyms ("dyer's greenweed" is a member of...):

Genista; genus Genista (chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom)

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