Definitions of whin in English
noun
(1) Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
(2) 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
(3) Any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt
Examples of whin in English
(1) Beyond that, weed draped on fence wire and whin bushes by the roadside, marked a Princess.
(2) A land where plastic shamrocks are rare, whin bushes are plentiful and the green isn't made in Taiwan.
(3) So she is understandably dismissive of the dismal gorse and whin on view outside the living room window of her Council house.
(4) The other, the Longhoughton quarry, is located in the contact between the Great limestone (country rock) and the whin sill intrusion.
(5) Cassiopeia was over Cassidy's hanging hill, I looked and three whin bushes rode across The horizon - the Three Wise Kings.
(6) Built from whinstone , with a slate roof, the pedimented front door is a particularly handsome feature.
(7) They are comprised primarily of a rock called whinstone , which is very prone to vertical weathering and faulting.
(8) The northwards path along a rocky coastline takes you to Dunstanburgh Castle, a romantic ruin where kittiwakes, cormorants and fulmars nest on whinstone cliffs.
synonyms of whin
dyer's greenweed
furze
whinstone
