dyeweed

A small Eurasian shrub with clusters of yellow flowers that produce a dye, commonly found as a weed in Britain and the United States, and sometimes cultivated as an ornamental.

• 🇩🇪Kleiner eurasischer Strauch mit Büscheln gelber Blüten, die einen Farbstoff liefern; oft als Unkraut in Großbritannien und den USA vorkommend, manchmal als Zierpflanze kultiviert.

1. A dye-producing plant B2 formal scientific

   A small Eurasian shrub (often Genista tinctoria) with clusters of yellow flowers from which a yellow dye can be extracted; commonly found as a weed in Britain and the United States, and sometimes cultivated as an ornamental.

   • The dyer's greenweed, known as dyeweed, was historically used to color wool.
   • Dyeweed grows freely along roadsides in parts of England.
   • Some gardeners plant dyeweed for its bright yellow flowers and utility.

   🇩🇪Färberpflanze

   Synonyme: greenweedwoadwaxenwoodwaxen

• dyeweeds plural form
• dyeweeds' possessive plural form
• dyeweed's possessive singular form