Whin
nounverified·updated May 18, 2026
any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
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small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye
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very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers
Classifications
Entity Type
Unknown—glossary_import_default_pending_classifier
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Sensitivity
unclassified
Information Class
unclassified
Variants
- synonym
- dyer's greenweeddyer's-broomdyeweedfurzegorsegreenweedwhinstonewoadwaxenwoodwaxen
- plural
- Whins
- possessive
- Whin's
- pluralpossessive
- Whins'