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Define the word woadwaxen

"Woad-waxen" gcide "The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48"

Woad-waxen \Woad"-wax`en\, n. [Cf. Wood-wax.] (Bot.)
   A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and
   Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also
   greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin,
   wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen.
   [1913 Webster]

"woadwaxen" wn "WordNet (r) 2.0"

woadwaxen
     n : 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 [syn: woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin,
          Genista tinctoria]