(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
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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 ]