genista tinctoria

1. 1.

   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

   Synonymswoodwaxendyer's greenweeddyer's-broomdyeweedgreenweedwhinwoadwaxen

   Broaderbroom

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Questions about genista tinctoria

What does genista tinctoria mean?

genista tinctoria 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 genista tinctoria?

Close synonyms include woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed. 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 genista tinctoria a common word?

genista tinctoria 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.