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whinstone, whin | any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) | |
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whin, gorse, furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus | very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe | |
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whin, woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, 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 |