whin

Noun

• any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)

• 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

• very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

Related words

• Synonyms: 
  whinstone , woodwaxen , dyer's greenweed , dyer's-broom , dyeweed , greenweed , woadwaxen , Genista tinctoria , gorse , furze , Irish gorse , Ulex europaeus