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WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024woad•wax•en (wōd′wak′sən),USA pronunciation n. - Plant Biologyan ornamental Eurasian shrub, Genista tinctoria, whose flowers yield a yellow dye formerly used with woad to make a permanent green dye.
Also, woodwaxen. Also called dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyer's greenwood. - 1325–75; Middle English wodewaxen, equivalent. to wode wood1 + waxen grown (past participle of waxen to wax2); replacing Middle English wodewax, Old English wuduweax
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