GENISTA TINCTORIA
Dictionary entry overview: What does Genista tinctoria mean? • GENISTA TINCTORIA (noun)
The noun GENISTA TINCTORIA 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: GENISTA TINCTORIA used as a noun is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
• GENISTA TINCTORIA (noun)
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 ("Genista tinctoria" 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 ("Genista tinctoria" is a member of...):
Genista; genus Genista (chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom)
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