Word Pronunciation & Dictionary

woad-waxen

Word Rarity Very rare

Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.47 in modern English

Syllables: woad--wax-en
IPA

23

Scrabble Score

9

Letters

4

Syllables

7

Unique Chars

Meaning

noun

The leguminous plant Genista tinctoria, native to Europe.

Example Sentences

"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,[…]."

Etymology

From Old English wuduweaxe.

Origin

Source language: Old English

Word Breakdown

Root: wuduweaxe

Inflected Forms

woad-waxens (plural) woad waxen (alternative)

Synonyms

greenweed greenwood whin wood-wash woodwax woodwaxen

Questions

What does woad-waxen mean?: The leguminous plant Genista tinctoria, native to Europe.
Where does woad-waxen come from?: It is traced to Old English.

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