Noun
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any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
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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
- dyer's greenweed - dyer's broom - genista tinctoria -
very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers
common throughout western Europe
- irish gorse - ulex europaeus