woad|wax|en

woad|wax|en
woad|wax|en «WOHD WAK suhn», noun.
an Old-World yellow-flowered shrub of the pea family; dye-weed; dyer's-broom. Its flowers were formerly used as the source of a yellow dye. Also, woodwaxen.
[alteration (influenced by woad) of woodwaxen < Old English wuduweaxen, oblique case of wuduweaxe < wudu wood, tree + -weaxe, related to weaxan to wax, grow]

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