资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Woad-waxen \Woad"-wax`en\, n. [Cf. {Wood-wax}.] (Bot.)
   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}.

资料来源 : WordNet®

Genista tinctoria
     n : 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 [syn: {woodwaxen}, {dyer's
         greenweed}, {dyer's-broom}, {dyeweed}, {greenweed}, {whin},
          {woadwaxen}]