释义 |
Noun: whin win- Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
- gorse, furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus - 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
- woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria - Any of various hard coloured rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
- whinstone
Sounds like: win Derived forms: whins Type of: broom, bush, rock, shrub, stone Part of: Genista, genus Genista, genus Ulex, Ulex Encyclopedia: Whin |