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1. (noun) gorse, furze, whin, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus
very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

2. (noun) woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria
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

3. (noun) whinstone, whin
any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)

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