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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ROGET THESAURUS

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whin

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Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun whin has 3 senses

whin(n = noun.plant) furze, gorse, irish gorse, ulex europaeus - very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe;

is a member of genus ulex, ulex

is a kind of bush, shrub

whin(n = noun.plant) dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, genista tinctoria, greenweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxen - 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;

is a kind of broom

is a member of genista, genus genista

whin(n = noun.object) whinstone - any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt);

is a kind of rock, stone

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CIDE DICTIONARY

whin, n. [W. chwyn weeds, a single weed.].

Gorse; furze. See Furze. [1913 Webster]
"Through the whins, and by the cairn." [1913 Webster]
Same as Whinstone. [1913 Webster]

Moor whin or Petty whin (Bot.), a low prickly shrub (Genista Anglica) common in Western Europe. -- Whin bruiser, a machine for cutting and bruising whin, or furze, to feed cattle on. -- Whin Sparrow (Zoöl.), the hedge sparrow. [Prov. Eng.] -- Whin Thrush (Zoöl.), the redwing. [Prov. Eng.]

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

whin, n. (in sing. or pl.) furze, gorse.

whin, n.
1 hard dark esp. basaltic rock or stone.
2 a piece of this.

Etymology

ME: orig. unkn.

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ROGET THESAURUS

whin

Vegetable

N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.