Category:Woad-waxen

Woad"-wax`en, n. Etym: [cf. Wood-wax.] (bot.)

Defn: a leguminous plant (genista tinctoria) of europe and russian Asia, and adventitious in america; -- called also greenwood, Greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin, wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood- Waxen.