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Answer for the clue "Genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs gorse ", 4 letters:
ulex

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Ulex ( gorse , furze or whin ) is a genus of flowering plants in the family Fabaceae. The genus comprises about 20 species of thorny evergreen shrubs in the subfamily Faboideae of the pea family Fabaceae . The species are native to parts of western Europe ...

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We occasionally though rarely see something of this kind in plants: thus the embryonic leaves of the ulex or furze, and the first leaves of the phyllodineous acaceas, are pinnate or divided like the ordinary leaves of the leguminosae.