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whin 1 W0166600 (wĭn, hwĭn)n. See gorse. [Middle English whinne, probably of Scandinavian origin.]
whin 2 W0166600 (wĭn, hwĭn)n. A whinstone. [Middle English quin.]whin (wɪn) n (Plants) another name for gorse[C11: from Scandinavian; compare Old Danish hvine (græs), Norwegian hvine, Swedish hven]
whin (wɪn) n (Geological Science) short for whinstone[C14: quin, of obscure origin]ThesaurusNoun | 1. | whin - very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europefurze, gorse, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeusgenus Ulex, Ulex - genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs: gorsebush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems | | 2. | whin - 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, greenweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxenbroom - 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 | | 3. | whin - any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)whinstonerock, stone - a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me" | Translationswhin
whinindicates fury. [Flower Symbolism: Flora Symbolica, 178]See: AngerWHIN
WHIN Abbreviation for: Women's Health Information ServiceWHIN
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WHIN➣World Heritage Information Network | WHIN➣Wisconsin Health Information Network (est. 1993) | WHIN➣Workers' Health International Newsletter (UK) | WHIN➣Women's Health in the North (Australia) | WHIN➣Western Health Improvement Network (Canada) |
whin Related to whin: furzeSynonyms for whinnoun very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowersSynonyms- furze
- gorse
- Irish gorse
- Ulex europaeus
Related Wordsnoun small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dyeSynonyms- dyer's greenweed
- dyer's-broom
- dyeweed
- Genista tinctoria
- greenweed
- woadwaxen
- woodwaxen
Related Words- broom
- Genista
- genus Genista
noun any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)SynonymsRelated Words |