whin in English dictionary

  • whin

    Meanings and definitions of "whin"

    • gorse
    • noun
      Gorse; furze.
    • noun
      The plant woad-waxen ( Genista tinctoria).
    • noun
      Whinstone.
    • whin(stone)
    • noun
      any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
    • noun
      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
    • noun
      very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

    Synonyms of "whin" in English dictionary

    whinstone, broom, greenweed are the top synonyms of "whin" in the English thesaurus.

    Grammar and declension of whin

    • whin ( uncountable)
    • whin (countable and uncountable, plural whins)
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