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