Gorse

n.

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(Bot.) Furze. See Furze. The common, overgrown with fern, and rough With prickly gorse. - Cowper. Gorse bird (Zool.) the European linnet; - called also gorse hatcher. Gorse chat (Zool.) the winchat. Gorse duck the corncrake; - called also grass drake, land drake, and corn drake.

Noun

1.

gorse - very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe Synonyms: furze, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus, whin

bush, furze, genus Ulex, Irish gorse, shrub, Ulex, Ulex europaeus, whin