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Princeton's WordNet

  1. gorse, furze, whin, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeusnoun

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

  2. woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctorianoun

    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. whinstone, whinnoun

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

Wiktionary

  1. whinnoun

    gorse

  2. Etymology: From whynne, from hvein (compare Norwegian kvein, Swedish ven, dialectal hven).

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Whinnoun

    genista spinosa, Latin. A weed; furze.

    Etymology: chwyn, Welsh;

    With whins or with furzes thy hovel renew. Thomas Tusser.

    Plants that have prickles in their leaf are holly, juniper, whin-bush, and thistle. Francis Bacon.

Wikipedia

  1. WHIN

    WHIN (1010 AM), licensed to Gallatin, Tennessee, is a radio station broadcasting an adult hits format. The station is owned by Brayden Madison Broadcasting L.L.C.

ChatGPT

  1. whin

    Whin is a term commonly used in Scotland and Ireland to describe a type of coarse, hardy shrub or bush typically found in uncultivated land. It is most often used to refer to gorse, a plant with sharp thorns and bright yellow flowers. The term may also refer to the hard, compact type of igneous rock known as whinstone.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Whinnoun

    gorse; furze. See Furze

  2. Whinnoun

    woad-waxed

  3. Whinnoun

    same as Whinstone

  4. Etymology: [W. chwyn weeds, a single weed.]

Wikidata

  1. WHIN

    WHIN, licensed to Gallatin, Tennessee, is a radio station broadcasting a country music format. The station is owned by Whin, Inc..

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Whin

    hwin, n. gorse, furze.—n. Whin′-chat, a bird very similar in appearance, esp. when it assumes its duller autumn plumage, to the Stone-chat, a summer visitant of Britain.—adj. Whin′ny, abounding in whins. [W. chwyn, weeds.]

  2. Whin

    hwin, n. See Whinstone.

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of WHIN in Chaldean Numerology is: 8

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of WHIN in Pythagorean Numerology is: 9

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