The prickly shrub Ulex europæus; common furze or whin.

The popular name of Ulex europæus, a spiny evergreen shrub with yellow flowers, growing abundantly on waste lands throughout Europe. Also named gorse…

The common furze or gorse, Ulex europæus.

= furze, n. Chiefly in combination, as fur-bill, fur-bush (-busk), fur-stack; fur chuck n. the bird furze-chat.

Gorse, Ulex europaeus.

A furze-bush.

esp. in furze-bush, also (obsolete and dialect) furzen bush.

(a) the petty whin, Genista anglica; (b) the common furze.

(a) the petty whin, Genista anglica, (b) the common whin, furze, or gorse.

= furze, n.

In popular names of other plants, as dwarf furze n. (Ulex nanus). ground furze n. the Rest-harrow (Ononis arvensis). needle furze n. (Genista anglica…

either of two species of furze, common furze, Ulex europaeus, and dwarf furze, U. gallii.

A genus of thorny papilionaceous shrubs belonging to the order Leguminosæ; a plant belonging to this genus, esp. Ulex Europæus the common furze…