GORSE

gorse, furze, whin, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus

(noun) very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe

Source: WordNet® 3.1


Etymology

Noun

gorse (countable and uncountable, plural gorses)

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

Synonyms

• furze, whin

Anagrams

• Geros, Grose, Regos, ergos, goers, gores, ogres, regos, soger

Source: Wiktionary


Gorse, n. Etym: [OE. & AS. gorst; perh. akin to E. grow, grass.] (Bot.)

Definition: Furze. See Furze. The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse. Cowper. Gorse bird (Zoöl.), the European linnet; -- called also gorse hatcher. [Prov. Eng.] -- Gorse chat (Zoöl.), the winchat.

– Gorse duck, the corncrake; -- called also grass drake, land drake, and corn drake.

Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition



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