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 whin whin /wɪn/

noun

  1. Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)  ( whin , whinstone )
    any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
  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  ( dyer's greenweed , dyer's-broom , dyeweed , Genista tinctoria , greenweed , whin , woadwaxen , woodwaxen )
    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
  3. Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe  ( furze , gorse , Irish gorse , Ulex europaeus , whin )
    very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe