Whin

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. See gorse.
  • n. A whinstone.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. Gorse; furze.
  • n. The plant woad-waxen.
  • n. whinstone
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n.
  • n. Gorse; furze. See Furze.
  • n. Woad-waxed.
  • n. Same as Whinstone.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. A plant of the genus Ulex, the furze or gorse, chiefly U. Europæus and U. nanus. See furze,1, and cut under Ulex.
  • n. Same as rest-harrow, 1.
  • n. A name given in the north of England and in Wales to various rocks, chiefly to basalt, but also to any unusually hard quartzose sandstone. The latter is sometimes called white or gray whin, the basalt blue whin. See whin-sill.
  • n. An erroneous form of whim, 3.
  • n. Same as wheen.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
  • n. any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
  • 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
  • Equivalent
    pettywhin   
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    shrub    bush    stone    rock    broom   
    Cross Reference
    Variant
    whinstone   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    woad-waxed    furz   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    mesilf    dry-stone    wurruk    dressin'    quarasote    willin'    daphne    thim    lettin'    knowin'