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woad-waxen

woad-waxen noun: the leguminous plant Genista tinctoria, native to Europe.

woad-waxen: the leguminous plant Genista tinctoria, native to Europe
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Noun

woad-waxen (plural woad-waxens)

  1. The leguminous plant Genista tinctoria, native to Europe.
    • The woad waxen (Genista tinctoria), common enough near Salem, is seldom found inland, and the same holds good for the barberry and privet, which grow so abundantly near the coast and which have probably been introduced for two hundred years.1898, Annual Report of the Secretary of the Board of Agriculture, Massachusetts State Board of Agriculture, Volume 45, Part 1897, page 273
    • […]but after a time he left the sages, and leaped above the mayweeds, the felt-wyrts, the savouries, and the woad-waxens.1941, Eva Roe Gaggin, Down Ryton Water, published 1998, page 24
    Synonyms:
    greenweed, greenwood, whin, wood-wash, woodwax, woodwaxen

Synonyms of woad-waxen

Forms of woad-waxen

pluralwoad-waxens
alternative formwoad waxen

Origin of woad-waxen

From Old English wuduweaxe.

Questions about woad-waxen

What does woad-waxen mean?
Woad-waxen means the leguminous plant Genista tinctoria, native to Europe.
What part of speech is woad-waxen?
Woad-waxen is a noun.
What is the plural of woad-waxen?
The plural of woad-waxen is woad-waxens.

Words near woad-waxen in the dictionary

  1. wo'n't
  2. wo/man
  3. wo/men
  4. woa
  5. woad
  6. woad-waxen
  7. woad-waxens
  8. woaded
  9. woaden
  10. woader
  11. woaders

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