Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
English: whinstone, whin
whinEnglish
whin, Genista tinctoria, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus, dyer's-broom
Noun
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
English: woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria
Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers, common throughout western Europe
English: gorse, furze, whin, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus