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Definition: Meaning of, whin in English to English dictionary.

Pronunciation: / wɪn /

  • noun
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Word Forms:
Singular Plural
whin whins
  1. very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
    SYNONYM
    gorse, furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus
    ANTONYM
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  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
    SYNONYM
    woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria
    ANTONYM
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  3. especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt any of various hard coloured rocks
    SYNONYM
    whinstone
    ANTONYM
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whin used in phrases

  • petty whin (noun)
    1. prickly yellow-flowered shrub of the moors of New England and Europe
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