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dyer's greenweed

dyer's greenweed

noun

woadwaxen.
dyer's-greenweed

dyer's-greenweed

noun

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

dyer's greenweed

American

[green-weed] / ˈgrinˌwid /

noun

woadwaxen.

dyer's-greenweed British

noun

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

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Etymology

Origin of dyer's greenweed

First recorded in 1590–1600

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