whin

1. 1.

   very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

   SynonymsgorsefurzeIrish gorseUlex europaeus

   Broadershrub

   Part ofUlex
2. 2.

   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-broomdyeweedgreenweedwoadwaxenGenista tinctoria

   Broaderbroom

   Part ofGenista
3. 3.

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

   Synonymswhinstone

   Broaderrock

Other forms of whin

plural

whins·

Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.

Questions about whin

What does whin mean?

whin means "very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in whin?

whin has 1 syllable: whin.

What is another word for whin?

Close synonyms include gorse, furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus, woodwaxen. 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 whin a common word?

whin 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.