greenweed Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. 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
    whin; dyer's greenweed; woadwaxen; dyeweed; woodwaxen; dyer's-broom; Genista tinctoria.

WordNet


Green"weed` noun
Definitions
  1. (Bot.) See Greenbroom.

Webster 1913