Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Woad-waxen

Woad-waxen , noun

[Compare Wood-wax.]

(Botany) 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.