Synonyms of WHIN

noun

1. very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

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   Also: irish gorse, ulex europaeus.

2. 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

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   • DYEWEED15
   • WOADWAXEN23

   Also: dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, genista tinctoria.

   Not playable in Scrabble US: GREENWEED.

3. any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)

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