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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

GREE'NWEED , n. A plant of the genus Genista.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

n
1: 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 [syn: woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria]

Oxford Reference Dictionary

n. (dyer's greenweed) a bushy plant, Genista tinctoria, with deep yellow flowers.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Woad-waxen Woad"-wax`en, n. [Cf. Wood-wax.] (Bot.) A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Green-broom Green"-broom`, n. (Bot.) A plant of the genus Genista (G. tinctoria); dyer's weed; -- called also greenweed.

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Greenweed Green"weed`, n. (Bot.) See Greenbroom.