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Gorse

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Any of several spiny shrubs of the genus Ulex, especially U. europaeus, native to Europe and having fragrant yellow flowers and black pods. Also called furze, whin1.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. evergreen shrub, of the genus Ulex, having spiny leaves and yellow flowers.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Furze. See furze.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. The common furze or whin, Ulex Europæus.

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

Word Usage

"The Ridger: Fortunately, they can’t do much about the fact that gorse is furze (and whin, too, if you go to Scotland) and that Creutzfeld-Jakob disease can be called Jakob-Creutzfeld disease equally well (or even with K for C)."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

shrub bush

Variant

furze

Form

gorsy

Synonym

Words with the same meaning

whin furze

Same Context

Words that are found in similar contexts

furze brushwood heather underwood bramble hawthorn alder fern briar shrubbery