woad-waxen

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woad-waxen - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Woad-waxen \Woad"-wax`en\, n. [Cf. Wood-wax.] (Bot.)
     A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria) of Europe and
     Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also
     greenwood, greenweed, dyer's greenweed, and whin,
     wood-wash, wood-wax, and wood-waxen.
     [1913 Webster]