Found 2 items, similar to whin.
English → English (WordNet) Definition: whin whin n 1: very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe [syn: gorse, furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus] 2: small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental [syn: woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed , dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria] 3: any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) [syn: whinstone]
English → English (gcide) Definition: whin Furze \Furze\, n. [OE. firs, As. fyrs.] (Bot.) A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europ[ae]us), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus. [1913 Webster] 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]