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    GENISTA TINCTORIA

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     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    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 ornamentalplay

    Synonyms:

    dyer's-broom; dyer's greenweed; dyeweed; Genista tinctoria; greenweed; whin; woadwaxen; woodwaxen

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("Genista tinctoria" is a kind of...):

    broom (any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers)

    Holonyms ("Genista tinctoria" is a member of...):

    Genista; genus Genista (chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom)

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