Woad-waxen \Woad"-wax`en\, n. [Cf. {Wood-wax}.] (Bot.) A leguminous plant ({Genista tinctoria}) of Europe and Russian Asia, and adventitious in America; -- called also {greenwood}, {greenweed}, {dyer's greenweed}, and {whin}, {wood-wash}, {wood-wax}, and {wood-waxen}. [1913 Webster]
Wood-wash \Wood"-wash`\, Wood-wax \Wood"-wax`\, Wood-waxen \Wood"-wax`en\, n. [AS. wuduweaxe.] (Bot.) Same as {Woadwaxen}. [1913 Webster]