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dyersbroom

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dy⋅er's-broom

  [dahy-erz-broom, -broom]
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–noun
woadwaxen.
Origin:
1810–20

woad⋅wax⋅en

  [wohd-wak-suhn]
–noun
an ornamental Eurasian shrub, Genista tinctoria, whose flowers yield a yellow dye formerly used with woad to make a permanent green dye.
Also, woodwaxen.
Also called dyer's-broom, dyer's greenweed, dyer's greenwood.

Origin:
1325–75; ME wodewaxen, equiv. to wode wood 1 + waxen grown (ptp. of waxen to wax 2 ); r. ME wodewax, OE wuduweax
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