名詞 whin:

1. very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
   同義詞：gorse, furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus
2. small Eurasian shrub having clusters of yellow flowers that yield a dye; common as weed in England and United States; sometimes grown as an ornamental
   同義詞：woodwaxen, dyer's greenweed, dyer's-broom, dyeweed, greenweed, woadwaxen, Genista tinctoria
3. any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt)
   同義詞：whinstone

whin

n.Botany （名詞）【植物學(xué)】
See gorse
參見 gorse

來源：
Middle English whinne
中古英語 whinne
[probably of Scandinavian origin]
[很可能源于斯堪的納維亞]

whin
whin 2

n.（名詞）
A whinstone.
暗色巖

來源：
Middle English quin
中古英語 quin