1) British golf-course rough 2) British shrub 3) Bush 4) English shrub 5) Exclusively Anglo word 6) Exclusively Saxon word 7) Furze 8) Furze or juniper 9) Furze or whin 10) Furze; juniper 11) German cultivates rose bush 12) Growth on English moors 13) Hardy plant of Europe 14) Heath growth 15) Highland plant
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1) Furze 2) Whin
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• (n.) Furze. See Furze.
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British links courses are often lined with this thick rough, often prickly and similar to shrubbery called Gorse.
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A shrub primarily found on linkland type courses. It is a spiny evergreen with bright yellow flowers. Same as whin.
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Gorse noun [ Middle English & Anglo-Saxon
gorst ; perhaps akin to English
grow ,
grass .]
(Botany) Furze. See
Furze . « The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly
gorse .»
Cowper. Gorse bird (Zoology) ,
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Gorse (Ulex) also known as furze or whin is a genus of plants of the family Leguminosae, native to western Europe. They are low shrubby plants, the common gorse (Ulex europicus) having a stem generally 80 cm to one metre high, much branched and most of the leaves converted into spines. The flowers are solitary and yellow. The fruits are hairy pods....
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[n] - very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers
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Any of a group of plants native to Europe and Asia, consisting of thorny shrubs with spine-shaped leaves growing thickly along the stems and bright-yellow coconut-scented flowers. (Genus Ulex, family Leguminosae.)
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