Greenweed, a name given to certain half-shrubby species of Genista. See GENISTA, and Dyer's Broom (G. tinctoria) under BROOM. Hairy Greenweed (G. pilosa) is sometimes grown in France on light soils as fodder for sheep.
Greenweed
Chambers's Encyclopaedia, Volume 5: Friday to Humanitarians, p. 409
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