whin, n.
(whins)
(whins)
any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
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whin whinstone
semantic pointers
hypernym
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 ornamental
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Genista tinctoria dyer's greenweed dyer's-broom dyeweed greenweed whin woadwaxen woodwaxen
very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
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Irish gorse Ulex europaeus furze gorse whin