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dyer's greenweed

[ green-weed ]

noun



dyer's-greenweed

noun

  1. a small Eurasian leguminous shrub, Genista tinctoria, whose yellow flowers yield a yellow dye, formerly mixed with woad to produce the colour Kendal green Also calledwoadwaxenwoodwaxen


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dyer's greenweed1

First recorded in 1590–1600

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