whin
Collocations
3ADJ.
black
VERB + WHIN
saw
WHIN + NOUN
bushes
Definitions
noun
Gorse; furze (Ulex spp.).
1790, Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter, 1828, Thomas Park (editor), Works of the British Poets, Volume XX: The Poems of Robert Burns, page 65, By this time he was cross the ford, / Whare in the snaw the chapman smoor'd; / And past the birks and meikle stane, / Whare drunken Charlie brak's neck-bane; / And through the whins, and by the cairn, / Whare hunters fand the murder'd bairn; / And near the thorn, aboon the well, / Whare Mungo's mither hang'd hersel.
And sometimes they clambered down […] and saw the whin bushes climb black the white hills beside them and far and away the blink of lights across the moors where folk lay happed and warm.
The plant woad-waxen (Genista tinctoria).
noun
Whinstone.
Thesaurus
Synonyms
noun — any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisti
- whinstone
noun — small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that
- woodwaxen
- dyer's-broom
- dyeweed
- greenweed
- woadwaxen
noun — very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-ye
- gorse
- furze
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21790, Robert Burns, Tam o' Shanter, 1828, Thomas Park (editor), Works of the British Poets, Volume XX: The Poems of Robert Burns, page 65, By this time he was cross the ford, / Whare in the snaw the c
WiktionaryAnd sometimes they clambered down […] and saw the whin bushes climb black the white hills beside them and far and away the blink of lights across the moors where folk lay happed and warm.
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