Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Woad-waxen \Woad"-wax`en\, n. [Cf. {Wood-wax}.] (Bot.)
   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}.