Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun whin

3 senses of whin

Sense 1
gorse, furze, whin, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus -- (very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe)
       => shrub, bush -- (a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems)

Sense 2
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 a weed in Britain and the United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental)
       => broom -- (any of various shrubs of the genera Cytisus or Genista or Spartium having long slender branches and racemes of yellow flowers)

Sense 3
whinstone, whin -- (any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt))
       => rock, stone -- (a lump or mass of hard consolidated mineral matter; "he threw a rock at me")