1. Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
   "whin thickets provide important habitat for many bird species";
   - gorse, furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus
    
2. 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
   "Whin flowers were historically used to create yellow dye";
   - woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria
    
3. Any of various hard coloured rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
   "The old castle was built using local whin";
   - whinstone

Sounds like: wicker, whicker, Wicc

Derived forms: whins

Type of: broom, bush, rock, shrub, stone

Part of: Genista, genus Genista, genus Ulex, Ulex

Encyclopedia: Whin