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Noun whin has 3 senses
- gorse, furze, whin, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus - very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
--1 is a kind of shrub, bush
--1 is a member of Ulex, genus Ulex
- woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria - small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental
--2 is a kind of broom
--2 is a member of Genista, genus Genista
- whinstone, whin - any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
--3 is a kind of rock, stone
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