A bushy yellow-flowered Eurasian plant of the pea family, which has become naturalized in North America. The flowers were formerly used to make a yellow or green dye.
染料木（其花从前曾用来制作黄色或绿色的染料）
Genista tinctoria, family Leguminosae
Example sentencesExamples
A visit to the reserve in the summer is recommended as this is when the grassland flowers are at their best, including dyer's greenweed, pepper-saxifrage, oxeye daisy and corky-fruited water-dropwort.
Definition of dyer's greenweed in US English:
dyer's greenweed
noun
A bushy yellow-flowered Eurasian plant of the pea family, which has become naturalized in North America. The flowers were formerly used to make a yellow or green dye.
染料木（其花从前曾用来制作黄色或绿色的染料）
Genista tinctoria, family Leguminosae
Example sentencesExamples
A visit to the reserve in the summer is recommended as this is when the grassland flowers are at their best, including dyer's greenweed, pepper-saxifrage, oxeye daisy and corky-fruited water-dropwort.