prickly broom
noun
Any of various prickly shrubs; especially gorse, Ulex europaeus.
Origin
Late 16th century; earliest use found in John Gerard (c1545–1612), herbalist.
- subcategory
- clootie dumpling
- clop
- clopidogrel
- cloqué
- closable
- close
- close but no cigar
- close by
- close call
- close-caption
- close-coupled
- close-cropped
- closed
- closed book
- closed caption
- closed chain
- closed-circuit television
- closed communion
- closed compound
- closed couplet
- closed-door
- closed-end
- closed-in
- close-down