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    PETTY WHIN

    Pronunciation (US): Play  (GB): Play

     I. (noun) 

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    Meaning:

    Prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europeplay

    Synonyms:

    broom tree; Genista anglica; needle furze; petty whin

    Classified under:

    Nouns denoting plants

    Hypernyms ("petty whin" 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 ("petty whin" is a member of...):

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

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