woodwaxen

wood·wax·en

W0214600 (wo͝od′wăk′sən)n. See dyer's greenweed.

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[Middle English wodewaxen, from Old English wuduweaxe : wudu, wood + weaxan, to grow; see wax².]

woodwaxen

(ˈwʊdˌwæksən) n (Plants) another name for dyer's-greenweed

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Noun

1.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 ornamentaldyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, greenweed, woadwaxen, whinbroom - 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