greenweed

greenweed

(ˈɡriːnˌwiːd) n (Plants) See dyer's-greenweed

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greenweed - 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 ornamentaldyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, Genista tinctoria, woadwaxen, woodwaxen, whinbroom - any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowersGenista, genus Genista - chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom