WHIN
Scrabble letter values: W4H4I1N1 = 10
Definition
- noun very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers. — synonyms: gorse, furze, Irish_gorse, Ulex_europaeus
- noun small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye. — synonyms: woodwaxen, dyer's_greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, woadwaxen, Genista_tinctoria
- noun any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt). — synonyms: whinstone
Examples
- “common throughout western Europe”
- “common as a weed in Britain and the United States”
- “sometimes grown as an ornamental”