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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

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


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

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. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

Ulex europaeus n 1: very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden- yellow flowers; common throughout western Europe [syn: gorse, furze, whin, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus]