(n)creeping European perennial having red or pinkish-white flowers and red roots sometimes used as a substitute for madder in dyeing, Syn.Asperula tinctoria
(n)southern and western Australian shrub with unlobed or shallowly lobed toothed leaves and purple flowers; sometimes placed in genus Hibiscus, Syn.Radyera farragei, Hibiscus farragei
n. small Eurasian shrub (Genista tinctoria) having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and U.S.; sometimes grown as an ornamental. Syn. -- woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's weed, dyer's rocket, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria. [ WordNet 1.5 ]