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woad-waxen
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woad-waxen, n. [Cf. Wood-wax.].
A leguminous plant (Genista tinctoria ) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also greenwood , greenweed , dyer's greenweed , and whin , wood-wash , wood-wax , and wood-waxen . [1913 Webster]
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