furze

(fɜːz) n (Plants) another name for gorse[Old English fyrs] ˈfurzy adj

gorse

(gɔrs)

n. any spiny European evergreen shrub of the genus Ulex, of the legume family, having rudimentary leaves and yellow flowers. Also called furze. [before 900; Middle English gorst, Old English; akin to Old High German gersta, Latin hordeum barley] gors′y, adj.

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furze - very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers; common throughout western Europegorse, Irish gorse, Ulex europaeus, whingenus Ulex, Ulex - genus of Eurasian spiny shrubs: gorsebush, shrub - a low woody perennial plant usually having several major stems

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furze

furze,

any plant of the genus Ulex of the family Leguminosae (pulsepulse,
in botany, common name for members of the Fabaceae (Leguminosae), a large plant family, called also the pea, or legume, family. Numbering about 650 genera and 17,000 species, the family is third largest, after the asters and the orchids.
..... Click the link for more information. family), low, densely branched shrubs with spiny leaves (when present) and fragrant yellow blossoms. U. europaeus, the common furze (also called gorse and whin), thrives in sandy soil; naturalized from Europe, it is used as a hedge plant, a sand binder, and sometimes as fodder. Furze is classified in the division MagnoliophytaMagnoliophyta
, division of the plant kingdom consisting of those organisms commonly called the flowering plants, or angiosperms. The angiosperms have leaves, stems, and roots, and vascular, or conducting, tissue (xylem and phloem).
..... Click the link for more information. , class Magnoliopsida, order Rosales, family Leguminosae.

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noun very spiny and dense evergreen shrub with fragrant golden-yellow flowers

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