whin
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1. any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) (noun.object)
2. 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 (noun.plant)
| hypernym | : | broom, |
| definition | : | any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers (noun.plant) |
| member meronym | : | genista, genus genista, |
| definition | : | chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom (noun.plant) |
3. very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe (noun.plant)
| member meronym | : | genus ulex, ulex, |
| definition | : | genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs: gorse (noun.plant) |
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