What does woad-waxen mean?
Woad-waxen means The leguminous plant Genista tinctoria, native to Europe..
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Pronunciation varies by accent · noun
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.
[…]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,[…].
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Woad-waxen means The leguminous plant Genista tinctoria, native to Europe..
Common synonyms include greenweed, greenwood, whin, wood-wash.
The opposite depends on the specific sense.
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.
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