woad-waxen Meaning, Definition & Usage

Woad"-wax`en noun

Etymology

Cf. Wood-wax.

Definitions

1. (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.