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Noun: woodwaxen  'wûd`wak-sun
  1. 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
    - dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria

Derived forms: woodwaxens

Type of: broom

Part of: Genista, genus Genista

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Woodsia ilvensis
woodsiness
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wood-sorrel family
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woodsy
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Woodwardia
Woodwardia virginica
woodwaxen
woodwind
woodwind family
woodwind instrument
woodwork
woodworker
woodworking
woodworking plane
woodworking vise
woodworm
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