woad-waxen

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. The dyers' green-weed, Genista tinctoria. See Genista (with cut).

Wiktionary

1. n. A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. n. (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.

WordNet 3.0

1. n. 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