whin

whin ¹

W0166600 (wĭn, hwĭn)n. See gorse.

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[Middle English whinne, probably of Scandinavian origin.]

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whin ²

W0166600 (wĭn, hwĭn)n. A whinstone.

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[Middle English quin.]

whin

(wɪn) n (Plants) another name for gorse[C11: from Scandinavian; compare Old Danish hvine (græs), Norwegian hvine, Swedish hven]

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whin

(wɪn) n (Geological Science) short for whinstone[C14: quin, of obscure origin]

Thesaurus

Noun	1.	whin - very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europefurze, gorse, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeusgenus Ulex, Ulex - genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs: gorsebush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
	2.	whin - 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 ornamentaldyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxenbroom - any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowersGenista, genus Genista - chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom
	3.	whin - any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)whinstonerock, stone - a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me"

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