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Very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers
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furze
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WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
n. very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe [syn: gorse , whin , Irish gorse , Ulex europaeus ]
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Furze \Furze\, n. [OE. firs, As. fyrs.] (Bot.) A thorny evergreen shrub ( Ulex Europ[ae]us ), 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 .
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
type of evergreen shrub abundant in English heaths, Old English fyrs "furze, gorse, bramble," a word of unknown origin. Related: Furzy .
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
Word definitions in Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
noun EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS ▪ He could even pick out the dots of furze bushes and stunted yew trees on the steep slopes. ▪ It was quartering the acres of furze with their loads of scented yellow blossom. ▪ The furze and heather stretched away for a mile between ...
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. A thorny evergreen shrub ((taxlink Ulex europaeus species noshow=1)), with yellow flowers, very common upon the plains and hills of Great Britain and Ireland.
Usage examples of furze.
Or, if we turn northward, we only find it seaming another ample fold of bogland, outspread far and far beyond Lisconnel before a grey hill-range begins to rise in slow undulations, crested with furze and broom.
The chiffchaffs arrived all at once, as it seemed, in a bevy, and took possession of every birch about the furze, calling incessantly with might and main.
He saw a stretch of empty downs with the wind swaying the remote green-pointed furze bushes.
He made his road by the barer ridges, and circumvented the hollows or crossed them where matted furze or hazel made a foundation.
They had left the shore road and were now in a country of sheep-walks, fields of grass bounded by drystone dykes, and now and then a common bright with furze and the young sprouts of heather.
Charlie rejoined his father and mother, who naturally forsook the Furzes at the earliest possible moment in such a public place as a church porch.
That the hazels, furzes, maples, alders, wythies, crab-trees, fern, and bushes, growing upon the aforesaid wastes and commons, or in either of them, as also the acorns when they there fall, do belong to the customary tenants of the said manor, not excluding the lord of the said manor for the time being from the same.
But in the midst of chewing, the uniforms remembered their uniforms, dashed a little way out into the field along the furze bordering the lane, and scared up a hare which, however, turned out not to be Koljaiczek.
Once a huge piece of machinery which seemed to be the valves and piston of a hydraulic pump projected itself, all rusted, from a clump of furze.
The heather was at its purplest, the furze at its yellowest, the grasshoppers chirped loud enough for birds, the snakes hissed like little engines, and Elfride at first felt lively.
The bowl of a tobacco pipe, full of powder, was then inserted, with an equal dose of shot, and all being ready we were soon among the furze.