dyer's greenweed

Questions about dyer's greenweed

What does dyer's greenweed mean?

dyer's greenweed means "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".

What is another word for dyer's greenweed?

Close synonyms include woodwaxen, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is dyer's greenweed a common word?

dyer's greenweed is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.