whin   (TTS Sound)

The noun whin has 3 senses

• gorse, furze, whin, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus -- (very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe)


• woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, whin, 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)


• whinstone, whin -- (any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt))