Definition of "gorse" []

• Any of several spiny shrubs of the genus Ulex, especially U. europaeus, native to Europe and having fragrant yellow flowers and black pods. Also called furze, whin1. (noun)

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• "The Ridger: Fortunately, they can’t do much about the fact that gorse is furze (and whin, too, if you go to Scotland) and that Creutzfeld-Jakob disease can be called Jakob-Creutzfeld disease equally well (or even with K for C)."
• "The Senator remarked that the gorse was a very little place, — for as they were on the side of an opposite hill they could see it all."
• "The larches put out their little tassels, celandines opened their yellow eyes, the smell of the gorse was her youth wafted back to her and she shook her head and said she did not want it."