Furze

Noun

 * 1) A thorny evergreen shrub (Ulex Europaeus), 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.
 * 2) * 1922, Virginia Woolf, Jacob's Room, Vintage Classics, paperback edition, page 93
 * Clumps of withered grass stood out on the hill-top; the furze bushes were black, and now and then a black shiver crossed the snow as the wind drove flurries of frozen particles before it.

Synonyms

 * gorse

Translations

 * French: ajoncs (m pl)

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