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WORDNET DICTIONARY
CIDE DICTIONARY
OXFORD DICTIONARY
ROGET THESAURUS

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Noun

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WORDNET DICTIONARY

Noun gorse has 1 sense

gorse(n = noun.plant) furze, irish gorse, ulex europaeus, whin - very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe;

is a member of genus ulex, ulex

is a kind of bush, shrub

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CIDE DICTIONARY

gorse, n. [OE. & AS. gorst; perh. akin to E. grow, grass.].

Furze. See Furze. [1913 Webster]

"The common, overgrown with fern, and rough
With prickly gorse." [1913 Webster]

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.

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OXFORD DICTIONARY

gorse, n. any spiny yellow-flowered shrub of the genus Ulex, esp. growing on European wastelands. Also called FURZE.

Derivative

gorsy adj.

Etymology

OE gors(t) rel. to OHG gersta, L hordeum, barley

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ROGET THESAURUS

gorse

Vegetable

N vegetable, vegetable kingdom, flora, verdure, plant, tree, shrub, bush, creeper, herb, herbage, grass, annual, perennial, biennial, triennial, exotic, timber, forest, wood, woodlands, timberland, hurst, frith, holt, weald, park, chase, greenwood, brake, grove, copse, coppice, bocage, tope, clump of trees, thicket, spinet, spinney, underwood, brushwood, scrub, boscage, bosk, ceja, chaparal, motte, arboretum, bush, jungle, prairie, heath, heather, fern, bracken, furze, gorse, whin, grass, turf, pasture, pasturage, turbary, sedge, rush, weed, fungus, mushroom, toadstool, lichen, moss, conferva, mold, growth, alfalfa, alfilaria, banyan, blow, blowth, floret, petiole, pin grass, timothy, yam, yew, zinnia, foliage, branch, bough, ramage, stem, tigella, spray, leaf, flower, blossom, bine, flowering plant, timber tree, fruit tree, pulse, legume, vegetable, vegetal, vegetive, vegitous, herbaceous, herbal, botanic, sylvan, silvan, arborary, arboreous, arborescent, arborical, woody, grassy, verdant, verdurous, floral, mossy, lignous, ligneous, wooden, leguminous, vosky, cespitose, turf-like, turfy, endogenous, exogenous, green-robed senators of mighty woods, this is the forest primeval.