genista : Idioms & Phrases
genista anglica
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noun prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe
needle furze; broom tree; petty whin.
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genista hispanica
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noun erect shrub of southwestern Europe having racemes of golden yellow flowers
Spanish gorse; Spanish broom.
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genista raetam
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noun desert shrub of Syria and Arabia having small white flowers; constitutes the juniper of the Old Testament; sometimes placed in genus Genista
juniper bush; juniper; Retama raetam; retem; raetam.
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genista tinctoria
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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; greenweed.
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genus genista
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noun chiefly deciduous shrubs or small trees of Mediterranean area and western Asia: broom
Genista.
