whin

/wɪn/

/hwɪn/

Other forms: whins

Definitions of whin

1. noun

   very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
   synonyms: Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus, furze, gorse

   type of:

   bush, shrub

   a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems
2. noun

   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
   synonyms: Genista tinctoria, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, woadwaxen, woodwaxen

   type of:

   broom

   any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers
3. noun

   any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
   synonyms: whinstone

   type of:

   rock, stone

   a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter