Definition of whin

Scrabble & Words with friends points


  • whin is a valid Scrabble US word with a point value of 10
  • whin is a valid Scrabble UK word with a point value of 10
  • whin is a valid Words with friends word with a point value of 10

Definition of whin


  • 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 (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. dyer's-broom
    2. dyer's greenweed
    3. dyeweed
    4. genista tinctoria
    5. greenweed
    6. woadwaxen
    7. woodwaxen
  • very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. furze
    2. gorse
    3. irish gorse
    4. ulex europaeus
  • any of various hard colored rocks (especially rocks consisting of chert or basalt) (noun)

    Synonyms

    1. whinstone

See definition of whin in Merriam Webster