Contextualizebeta

woad-waxen

noun

Etymology

From Old English wuduweaxe.

  1. inherited from wuduweaxe

Definitions

  1. The leguminous plant Genista tinctoria, native to Europe.

    • […]but after a time he left the sages, and leaped above the mayweeds, the felt-wyrts, the savouries, and the woad-waxens.
    • Woad-waxen, which in modern English is wax-weed, was one of the plants of many virtues brought by the earliest Pilgrims,[…].

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for woad-waxen. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA