Woad-waxen
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Woad-waxen is a noun meaning The leguminous plant Genista tinctoria, native to Europe.
Meaning
The leguminous plant Genista tinctoria, native to Europe.
Example Sentences
[…]but after a time he left the sages, and leaped above the mayweeds, the felt-wyrts, the savouries, and the woad-waxens.
Woad-waxen, which in modern English is wax-weed, was one of the plants of many virtues brought by the earliest Pilgrims,[…].
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.
Word Forms
- woad-waxens
Synonyms for woad-waxen
Depending on context, synonyms include greenweed, greenwood, whin, woodwax, woodwaxen.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include woadwaxen, woadwax, woodwaxen, woodwax, whin, woad.
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