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