Meaning of woad-waxen | Babel Free

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The leguminous plant Genista tinctoria, native to Europe.

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“The woad waxen (Genista tinctoria), common enough near Salem, is seldom found inland, and the same holds good for the barberry and privet, which grow⟳ so abundantly near the coast and which have⟳ probably been introduced for two hundred years.”

“[…]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,[…].”

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