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Webster 1913 Edition
Woad-waxen
Woad′-waxˊen
,Noun.
[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
.