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wood·wax·en
\ˈwu̇ˌdwaksən\ noun
also woodwax \ˈ ̷ ̷ˌ ̷ ̷\
(plural woodwaxens also woodwaxes)
Etymology: Middle English wodewexen, alteration of Old English wuduweaxe, from wudu wood + -weaxe (probably from weaxan to grow) — more at wood, wax
: a yellow-flowered Eurasian shrub (Genista tinctoria) common as a weed in England, adventive in No. America, and sometimes cultivated for ornament — called also dyer's broom, dyeweed, greenweed, greenwood, whin, woadwaxen |