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dyer's greenweed

[ green-weed ]

noun



dyer's-greenweed

noun

  1. a small Eurasian leguminous shrub, Genista tinctoria, whose yellow flowers yield a yellow dye, formerly mixed with woad to produce the colour Kendal green Also calledwoadwaxenwoodwaxen
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of dyer's greenweed1

First recorded in 1590–1600

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