Furze

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. See gorse.
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  • n. A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex europaeus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europæus), with beautiful yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain; -- called also gorse, and whin. The dwarf furze is Ulex nanus.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. The common name for the Ulex Europæus, a low, much-branched, and spiny leguminous shrub, with yellow flowers
  • n. A frizz.
  • To become entangled, as silk fibers during the reeling from the cocoon.
    • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe
    • Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    shrub    bush   
    Cross Reference
    native furze    needle furze   
    Variant
    gorse    whin   
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    gorze    whin    gorse   
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    gorse    brushwood    underwood    heather    rhododendron    thistle    bramble    briar    fern    heath   
     
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